Keio University, Japan's oldest private university located in Tokyo, annually awards The Keio Medical Science Prize to recognize researchers who have made an outstanding contribution to the fields of medicine or the life sciences. It is the only prize of its kind awarded by a Japanese university, and 8 laureates of this prize have later won the Nobel Prize. The 26th Keio Medical Science Prize is awarded to Katalin Karikó, Ph.D.,from Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and Osamu Nureki, Ph.D., from Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo.