Kei Sakamoto receives New Investigator Award
Kei Sakamoto, a programme leader in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit, has been selected to receive a New Investigator Award from the Environmental and Exercise Physiology Section of the American Physiological Society. He will receive this prestigious award of $1000 at a special reception to be held on Monday, April 7 at the San Diego Marriott Hotel, USA
This award recognizes an outstanding investigator in the early stages of his/her career, who has made meritorious contributions to the scientific areas represented by the Environmental and Exercise Physiology Section.
In making the award, the committee members commented that 'Kei has been a prolific scientist with numerous high-impact papers regarding cellular metabolic control in skeletal muscle during exercise.'
Kei's research is focused on understanding the roles of protein kinases in controlling metabolic processes in muscle, and these studies have advanced our understanding of how exercise signals to enhance glucose uptake into muscle. Kei is now trying to work out molecular mechanism by which insulin stores glucose as glycogen in muscle, with the long term aim of providing the important information needed for the development of improved drugs to treat of type 2 diabetes in the future.
This award recognizes an outstanding investigator in the early stages of his/her career, who has made meritorious contributions to the scientific areas represented by the Environmental and Exercise Physiology Section.
In making the award, the committee members commented that 'Kei has been a prolific scientist with numerous high-impact papers regarding cellular metabolic control in skeletal muscle during exercise.'
Kei's research is focused on understanding the roles of protein kinases in controlling metabolic processes in muscle, and these studies have advanced our understanding of how exercise signals to enhance glucose uptake into muscle. Kei is now trying to work out molecular mechanism by which insulin stores glucose as glycogen in muscle, with the long term aim of providing the important information needed for the development of improved drugs to treat of type 2 diabetes in the future.