2019 Grand Prize winner, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award, Thinking about Finance and Economics Essay Contest for High School Students
2020 Grand Prize winner, Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare Award, Bio Summit for national high school students
2020 Grand Prize winner, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) Global Science Campus National Student Research Presentation
2020 Accepted for oral presentation at the International Society of Animal Behavior
2021 Published first-authored paper, “Tanizawa, F., Takemoto, H. Sleep contributes to preference for novel food odours in Drosophila melanogaster. Sci Rep 11, 9395”
2021 Graduated from Kaisei High School, Japan
2021 Harvey Mudd College (Scholarship student of Tadashi Yanai Foundation and John and Miyoko Davey Foundation)
2022 Undertook research internship focusing on the evolutionary development of Bicyclus anynana at Monteiro Lab, National University of Singapore; Honored as an Amgen Scholar
2023 Engaged in research internship studying C. elegans neuroscience at the Srinivasan Lab, The Scripps Research Institute; Chosen as a Ben Huppe ’14 Memorial Intern for a Sustainable World

Specializing in Computational and Molecular Biology, and I’ve used diverse organisms like flies, butterflies, and worms as research models. My current focus is unraveling aging mechanisms through computational, molecular, and genetic techniques. My ultimate goal is to enhance social welfare and disease treatment, potentially through identifying new longevity-related pathways. (Website: https://fuminoritanizawa.com/)