2019 - 2020
Our article by Ishii, Suzuki, Ishiwata & Kawai (2019) was selected as the Editor’s Choice Award by Biophysics and Physicobiology, an official journal of Japanese Biophysics Society (2020).
2018
Kawai’s textbook on “Biomechanics, Muscle Fibers, and How to Interface Experimental Apparatus to a Computer” was published from Springer Pub Co (2018).
2018
Our article by Kawai, Karam, Kolb, Wang and Granzier (2018) was highlighted in news by Journal of General Physiology.
2017
Our molecular model of the interaction between actin and myosin (Wang, Bai, Zhang, Song, Messer, Kawai) appeared in the cover of Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility (Vol. 38, Numbers 5-6).
2015
Kawai was the chief guest editor of a Special Issue of Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility published for European Muscle Conference at Salzburg, Austria, in 2014.
2016-2019
Kawai was appointed as a Visiting Professor in School of Nursing, Soochow University, Suzhou, China