The Society for Biotechnology, Japan (SBJ), as an academic society situated in Asia, is actively engaged in collaboration with societies of other Asian countries in the field of biotechnology.

Academic Agreements with Societies in Asia

  1. The Korean Society for Biotechnology and Bioengineering (KSBB)

    Since 1998, SBJ has exchanged agreement with "The Korean Society for Biotechnology and Bioengineering (KSBB)" for the promotion of the collaboration. Based on this agreement, every year each society invites at least 3 lecturers from the counterpart society to its own annual meeting, through which each society exchanges the advanced scientific knowledge and acknowledges the activity range of each society.

    SBJ selects the three lecturers from among the awardees of the Society Award, the Saito Award, the Eda Award, the Terui Award, the Technical Award, and the Excellent Paper Award and send them to the October annual meeting of KSBB to present their work.

    In addition, the members of KSBB can subscribe to the SBJ journals (Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering and Seibutsu-kogaku Kaishi) at a reduced price. KSBB members receive accounts to access the online version of  the Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering at a special price. 

  2. Thai Society for Biotechnology(TSB)

    With the "Thai Society for Biotechnology (TSB)", an agreement has been exchanged for the subscription of the SBJ English Journal (Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering) at a reduced price. TSB members can receive accounts to access the online version of the Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering at a special price. 

Network of the Societies for Microbiology and Biotechnology in Southeast Asia

In order to promote collaboration and information exchange among Asian societies in the field of biotechnology, SBJ has formed a network with the following Asian societies:

Young Asian Biotechnologist Prize

In order to stimulate research and to honor outstanding accomplishments in the field of biotechnology by young scientists in Asia other than Japan, SBJ founded the "Young Asian Biotechnologist Prize" in 2004, and one prize laureate has been granted every year.

Year Name Affiliation Research Title for the Award
2010 Yu-Hong Wei Yuan Ze Univ.
(Taiwan)		 Development of a natural anti-tumor drug by microorganisms
2009 Suchada Chanprateep Chulalongkorn Univ.
(Thailand)		 Biochemical Engineering Approaches Toward Bioprocess Development for Biodegradable Polyhydroxyalkanoates Production
2008 Dong-Myung Kim Chungnam Natl. Univ.(Korea) Development of Highly Productive and Economical Cell-Free Protein Synthesis Systems
2007 Ping Xu Shandong Univ.(China) The Development and Potential on Microbial Degradation of Sulfur, Nitrogen and Oxygen Heterocycles
2006 Jitladda Sakdapipanich Mahidol Univ.(Thailand) More Value Materials from Natural Rubber Based on Structural Characterization Studies
2005 Wen-Tso Liu Natl. Univ. of Singapore
(Singapore)		 Environmental Biotechnology-on-a-Chip
2004 Amulya K. Panda Natl. Inst. Immunol.
(India)		 High Throughput Recovery of Recombinant Protein from Inclusion Bodies of Escherichia coli
2002 Jian-Jiang Zhong East China Univ. of Sci. and Technol. (China) Manipulation of Inducing Signals and Cell Physiology and Innovation of Bioreactors and Bioprocesses for Efficient Production of Valuable Secondary Metabolites in Cell Culture
Suraini bt. Abd. Aziz Univ. Putra Malaysia (Malaysia) Biological Hydrolysis of Gelatinized Sago Starch Using a Recombinant Yeast

*The Society for Biotechnology, Japan awarded the prize to two scientists as part of the activities commemorating its 80th anniversary in 2002.

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