JACLaS International Award and Symposium 2024 Held - Japanese Association of Clinical Laboratory Systems

At the 56th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Medical Laboratory Sciences (JCLS) and the Japan Association for the Advancement of Clinical Laboratory Equipment, Reagents, and Systems (JACLaS), JCLS and JACLaS held the 2nd International Award 2024 for students studying clinical laboratories.

As a result of a broad call for student abstracts, and after a rigorous review by the JCLS International Committee members, four university students received the JACLaS International Award 2024.

The JACLaS International Award and Symposium was held on October 5th at the Pacifico Yokohama Conference Center (in Room 10), chaired by Dr. Hashiguchi and Dr. Kudo of the JCLS International Committee. In it, the award lectures were given by award winners and the presentation by the invited speaker, Dr. Pitak, President of AMTT (the Association of Medical Technologists in Thailand), was held.

An award ceremony was held during the welcome party in the evening of the same day, where the award certificates, plaques, and prize money were presented.

The award winners are as follows

Name of Author	School/Department/Year	Presentation Title	Country
Rifaldy Fajar [Representative] Ms. PRIHANTINI	Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Karlstad University, Sweden [Representative] Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia	Predictive Analytics for Early Detection of Asymptomatic Neurosyphilis Using Nanobody-Enhanced Biomarkers in HIV/Syphilis Co-Infected Patients	Sweden/Indonesia
Panuwat Sathianpitayakul	Chulalongkorn University, Thailand / Molecular science of Medical Microbiology and Immunology program, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences / Year 2	Differential diagnosis of Mycobacteria tuberculosis and non-tuberculous mycobacteria by duplex-recombinase polymerase amplification and an in-house nucleic acid lateral flow strip.	Thailand
Nutpakal Ketprasit	1 Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, The University of Melbourne, Australia	Reaction hijacking inhibition of Plasmodium aspartyl-tRNA synthetases – a novel approach to combat malaria	Australia/India
Ke Zhang	Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine/Clinical Laboratory of Ruijin Hospital	Thrombin Shanghai Mutant Grafted by Bacteria-engineered Porous Sponge for Bleeding Control	China