Professor KAWAMURA Shoji at Department of Integrated Biosciences has received:

• the 22nd Eminent Evolutionalist Award ^*sic (Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan）
  • "Integrative evolutionary biology for color vision diversity of primates and fish"
• Kimura Motoo Award（The Motoo Kimura Trust Foundation for the Promotion of Evolutionary Biology）
  • "Study of color vision diversity and evolution of primates and fish"

Comment from Professor KAWAMURA Shoji:

"Evolution" is the center of my academic interest. I have a deep attachment to the Society of Evolutionary Studies because I have regularly participated in the Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan from the former entity and was one of the founder of the society when it was established in 1999. When I was a graduate student, I had opportunities to attend Professor KIMURA Motoo's lectures and the neutral theory of molecular evolution has been my research backbone. Therefore, I am very much honored to receive the Eminent Evolutionalist Award and the Kimura Motoo Award. Moreover, I am newly determined to continue devote myself in research and will contribute to evolutionary studies.