The 2003 Japan Prize

• Field:
  Visualizing Techniques in Medicine
• Achievement:
  Discovery of the principle for functional magnetic resonance imaging
• Lecture:
  A Way to Learn Brain Function

Major Awards and Honors Received

1967	Eastman Kodak Award in Chemistry for PhD student
1995	Gold Medal Award from Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
1996	Biological Physics Prize from The American Physical Society
1998	Nakayama Prize from Nakayama Foundation for Human Science, Japan
1999	Asahi Prize from The Asahi Shimbun Cultural Foundation, Japan

Membership in Academic Institutions and Societies

	Member of International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
	Member of Society for Neuroscience

Academic Degrees

1957	B.S. The University of Tokyo
1967	Ph.D. Stanford University

Professional Career

1962-64	Research Associate, Radiation Research Laboratories Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh
1968-80	Member of the Technical Staff, Biophysics Research Bell Laboratories, AT & T
1984-96	Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff Principal Investigator Biophysics Research
1996-2001	Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff Principal Investigator Biological Computation Research Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
2001 March	Visiting Professor, Biophysics/Physiology Department Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York
2001- Present	Director, Ogawa Laboratories for Brain Function Research Hamano Life Science Research Foundation

Title

• Director, Ogawa Laboratories for Brain Function Research, Hamano Life Science Research Foundation

Major Books and Papers

• S. Ogawa, H. M. McConnell and R. Horowitz, "Overlapping Conformation Changes in Spin-Label Hemoglobin", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA), 61: 401-405 (1968)
• R. G. Shulman, S. Ogawa, K. Wurthrich, T. Yamane, J. Peisach and W. E. Blumberg, "Absence of "Heme-Heme" Interaction in Hemoglobin", Science, 165: 251-257 (1969)
• S. Ogawa and R. G. Shulman, "High Resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectra of Hemoglobin:III The Half Ligated State and Allosteric Interaction", J. Mol. Biol., 70: 314-335 (1972)
• S. Ogawa, T. M. Lee, A. S. Nayak and P. Glynn, "Oxygenation Sensitive Contrast in Magnetic Resonance Image of Rodent Brain at High Magnetic Fields", Magn. Reson. Med., 14: 68-78 (1990).
• S. Ogawa, T. M. Lee, A. R. Kay and D. W. Tank, "Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Contrast Dependent on Blood Oxygenation", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA), 87: 9868-9872 (1990).
• S. Ogawa, D. W. Tank, R. Menon, J. M. Ellermann, S.-G. Kim, H. Merkle and K. Ugurbil, "Intrinsic Signal Changes Accompanying Sensory Stimulation: Functional BrainMapping With Magnetic Resonance Imaging", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA), 89: 5951-5955 (1992).
• W. Denk, R. M. Keolian, S. Ogawa and L. W. Jelinski, "Oscillatory Flow in the Cochlea Visualized by Novel Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technique", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA), 90: 1595-1598 (1993).
• S. Ogawa, R. S. Menon, D. W. Tank, S-G. Kim, H. Merkle, J. M. Ellermann and K. Ugurbil, "Functional Brain Mapping by Blood Oxygenation Level-Dependent Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Comparison of Signal Characteristics with a Biophysical Model", Biophysical Journal, 64: March (1993)
• P. P. Mitra, S. Ogawa, X. Hu and K. Ugurbil, "The Nature of Spatiotemporal Changes in Cerebral Hemodynamics as Manifested in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging",Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 37: 511-518 (1997)
• Seiji Ogawa, Tso-Ming Lee, Ray Stepnoski, Wei Chen, Xiao-Hong Zhu, and Kamil Ugurbil, "An approach to probe some neural systems interaction by functional MRI at neural time scale down to milliseconds", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA), 97: 11026-11031 (2000)