Professor Toshio Tsuji and Associate Professor Yuichi Kurita of Electrical, Systems and Mathematical Engineering and other researchers were awarded the Excellent Paper Award from the JASTS(JASTS: Japanese Association for the Study of Taste and Smell).

The Award was given in recognition of their outstanding paper (title below) presented at the 45th JASTS Convention.

• Paper title: Prediction of glomerular activity patterns in rat olfactory bulb using the graph structure of odorant molecules
• Researchers:
  
  Zu Soh, Hiroshima University Graduate School of Biomedical & Health Sciences; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (PD)
  
  Toshio Tsuji, Professor, Division of Electrical, Systems and Mathematical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
  
  Yuichi Kurita, Associate Professor, Division of Electrical, Systems and Mathematical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
  
  Two researchers from other institutions