Another project is the mechanism of the quality control of mRNA, a mechanism called nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. In 2017, after becoming Professor Emeritus, Ohno served as President of the Consortium of Biological Sciences (ConBio 2017) in Kobe, Japan, which was also the 26th international conference of the Federation of National Societies of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the Asian and Oceanian Region (FAOBMB). Honors and awards 1989: Young Investigator Award (Japanese Biochemical Society) 1991: Young Investigator Award (Japanese Cancer Association) 2002: Kihara Memorial Foundation Academic Award Editorial activities Ohno served as an editor of The Journal of Biochemistry, which was founded in 1922 and publishes the results of original research in the fields of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biotechnology. References External links Prof. Shigeo Ohno 1952 births Living people Japanese biochemists Japanese molecular biologists Academic staff of Yokohama City University University of Tokyo alumni People from Niigata Prefecture