Johann Wiechers Award winners

In 2021 this award was announced at the IFSCC Virtual Cancún Conference and was presented at the IFSCC 2022 London Congress to Moe Tsutsumi from Shiseido (Japan) for her paper Skin Beauty with Gentle-touch-reception Merkel cells. Restore your sense with pleasant smell

At the 2019 Conference in Milan the Award went to Kazuki Takagaki (Shiseido) for his paper Holistic Beauty – 3-dimensional Macroscopic Visualization Of Vasculature In Skin And Its Physical Relevance In Skin Aging

2019 winner Kazuki Takagaki

The 2017 Award in Seoul went to Kazuyuki Miyazawa (Shiseido Co) for his paper Development of a shield technology to keep off air pollutants – Contribution to healthcare through a biocompatible polymer

At the 2015 Conference in Zurich the Award went to Aya Sakata, Katsuhiro Abe, Koji Mizukoshi, Takamasa Gomi & Itsuko Okuda (POLA Chemical Industries Inc, Yokohama, Japan and International University of Health and Welfare, Mita Hospital, Tokyo, Japan) for their paper Breakthrough in Improving the Skin Sagging with Focusing on the Subcutaneous Tissue Structure, Retinacula cutis

The 2013 Award went to Mariko Egawa, Motohiro Yanai, Hidenobu Arimoto, Motofumi Hagihara, Kumiko Kikuchi, Yuji Masuda, Koichi Nakamura & Tetsuji Hirao (Shiseido Research Center and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan) for their paper Visualization of water distribution in facial skin using novel high-sensitivity water imaging systems and application to cosmetics evaluation