Tanioku Kihei Memorial Award
The Tanioku Kihei Memorial Award was established in 1995 when the 20th Annual Meeting was held in Okayama through contributions from dermatologists mainly from Okayama University, in honor of the late Kihei Tanioku, professor emeritus of Okayama University, who aided in the Society's founding.
The Award is presented every year at the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Investigative Dermatology or the Annual Meeting of the International Investigative Dermatology to a domestic or foreign researcher who has made noteworthy lifetime achievements in dermatology or closely related research fields.
Awardees
| 1995 | Norbert Fusenig (German Cancer Research Center/DKFZ) |
| 1996 | Elaine Fuchs (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) |
| 1997 | Stuart Yuspa (National Cancer Institute, NIH) |
| 1998 | Tung-Tien Sun (New York University School of Medicine) |
| 1999 | James Cleaver |
| 2000 | John Stanley (University of Pennsylvania) |
| 2001 | Fiona Mary Watt (Imperial Cancer Research Fund) |
| 2002 | Thomas Luger (University of Münster) |
| 2003 | Dennis Roop (Baylor College of Medicine) |
| 2004 | Vincent J. Hearing (National Cancer Inst., NIH) |
| 2005 | Richard A. Spritz (Univ. of Colorado Health Sciences Center) |
| 2006 | Kathleen J. Green (Northwestern Univ. Feinberg School of Medicine) |
| 2007 | Stephen J. Galli (Stanford University School of Medicine) |
| 2008 | Paul Khavari (Stanford University School of Medicine) |
| 2009 | George Cotsarelis (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) |
| 2010 | W. H. Irwin McLean (University of Dundee) |
| 2011 | Ralf Paus (University of Luebeck) |
| 2012 | John A. McGrath (King's College London) |
| 2013 | Mark C. Udey (National Cancer Institute, NIH) |
| 2014 | Angela Maria Christiano (Columbia University) |
| 2015 | Thomas S. Kupper (Harvard Institutes of Medicine) |
| 2016 | Alexander H. Enk (University of Heidelberg) |
| 2017 | Michel Gilliet (Lausanne University Hospital) |
| 2018 | Jean Krutmann (IUF - Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine) |
| 2019 | Paul Nghiem (University of Washington) |
| 2020 | Amy S. Paller (Northwestern University) |
| 2021 | Howard Y. Chang (Stanford University School of Medicine) |
| 2022 | Russell P. Hall (Duke University) |
| 2024 | Jin Ho Chung (Seoul National University College of Medicine) |
