2014 JRR Terashima Award

The Board of Editors of the Journal of Radiation Research is pleased to announce that Dr. Qiu-Mei ZHANG-AKIYAMA and co-authors are the winners of the 2014 Terashima Award, given for their outstanding paper published in the Journal of Radiation Research in 2012 and 2013. In 2001, the Journal of Radiation Research established the Terashima Award honoring Dr. Toyozo Terashima, a pioneer in Japan in the field of radiation research, and has since been presented to the most prominent paper each year. In 2014, five papers were nominated for the Award and one paper by Dr. ZHANG-AKIYAMA et al. received the highest evaluation. She and the co-authors received a certificate, a 100,000 yen award, and exemption from processing charge on their next article published in the Journal of Radiation Research.