Honorary Doctorate Awarded to Prof. Hiroshi Nagashima

During the doctoral graduation ceremony on Saturday, July 26, 2025, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at LMU Munich awarded an honorary doctorate to Prof. Hiroshi Nagashima, Ph.D., of the School of Agriculture at Meiji University, Japan. As an internationally renowned reproductive biologist and biotechnologist, Prof. Nagashima played a key role in establishing somatic cell nuclear transfer technology in pigs at the LMU Munich. In 2006, he sent the highly skilled early-career scientist Dr. Mayuko Kurome to Munich, thereby laying an important foundation for the further development of this field of research. This technology provided the basis for the development of genetically modified pigs for biomedical research and has contributed to numerous high-impact scientific publications and successfully funded research projects. It also played an important role in establishing unique research infrastructures, including the Center for Innovative Medical Models (CiMM) and the Interfaculty Center for Endocrine and Cardiovascular Disease Network Modeling and Clinical Transfer (ICON).