Postgraduate student Yosuke Matsumiya (Balliol 2022) has won the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (JSOG) Congress Award.
Yosuke, who is reading for a DPhil in Women’s and Reproductive Health, won the award for a presentation he gave on his research, entitled ‘Increasing Cellular Placental Growth Factor (PlGF) using isolated mitochondria: A potential treatment for Fetal Growth Restriction (FGR)’, at a meeting of the JSOG in Tokyo.
With about 10,000 delegates, the 75th JSOG Annual Congress was one of the biggest obstetrics and gynaecology meetings in the world. The Congress Award was given to the top eight oral presentations, out of hundreds of abstracts submitted. During the Congress Yosuke also facilitated an international workshop for junior doctors, attended by doctors from Germany, UK, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea and Japan.
Yosuke’s many achievements – see his departmental profile – include facilitating a Memorandum of Understanding between JSOG and the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (RCOG) to develop shared goals towards the betterment of women’s health in the UK and Japan.
Recently Yosuke was awarded the Sakaguchi Scholarship, for outstanding Japanese DPhil students at Oxford who are intending to take a leadership role in an international organisation in future.