JACLaS International Award and Symposium 2025 Held - Japanese Association of Clinical Laboratory Systems

At the 57th 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 3rd International Award 2025 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 2025.

The JACLaS International Award and Symposium was held on October 4th at the Pacifico Yokohama Conference Center (in Room 10), chaired by Dr. Hashiguchi and Mr. Nakazawa of the JCLS International Committee. In it, the award lectures were given by award winners and the presentation by the invited speaker, Dr. Vu Quang Huy, Chairman of CVASMT, elected president of AASMT, 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
Junwei Yuan	Department of Laboratory Medicine, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.	Prognostic value of VWF and ADAMTS13 in progression of liver cirrhosis	China
Lucksanara Tangsunantham	Chulalongkorn University, Thailand / M.Sc. Program of Molecular Science of Medical Microbiology and Immunology program, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences	Genome analyses of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates reveal insights into circulating lineages and novel drug resistance mutations in Thailand	Thailand
Tho Ngoc Phan	University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam/ School of Nursing and Medical Technology	Antimicrobial Resistance of Staphylococcus spp. Isolated from ICU Patients: A 5-Year Retrospective Study from Vietnam	Vietnam
Xiaoli Ma	Department of Laboratory Medicine, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China	Efficient quantification of emicizumab by LC-MS/MS using protein G beads enrichment	China