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Figure 6　Celebration ceremony for the second prize of the 9th “Erwin-von-Bälz Award” (at German Embassy)Figure 7　Lecture to commemorate the award of the 9th “Japanese Society of Hematology Award” (at Kyoto International Conference Center)4122016)7). Furthermore, I revealed that mutant CALR forms homomers in the endoplasmic reticulum and binds to TPO receptors as a ligand (the Best Paper in Leukemia Journal in 2018)8), and that cancer develops by constitutively activating downstream signaling molecules after migration to the cell surface9). These achievements were highly recog-nized internationally, and I was awarded the second prize of the “Erwin-von-Bälz Award” in 2019 (Figure 6) and, subsequently the “Japanese Society of Hematology Award” in 2020 (Figure 7). I am confident that I strived to do these basic and clin-ical researches, which made the Department of Hematology Course, Department of Internal Medi-cine, Faculty of Medicine, Juntendo University a Japanese representative course in the area of myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN). Without the establishment of UT-7 and transfer to Juntendo University, no such series of results would have Figure 4　With members of Department of Hematology, University of Yamanashi HospitalFigure 5　Lecture by Chairman at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Hematology (at Tokyo International Forum)been produced. I believe that it should be the biggest turning point in my life.I have learned “people are the treasure”For the period of 16 years and 6 months, I served as a professor at University of Yamanashi and Juntendo University combined. What I learned from this precious experience is “people are the treasure.” This is exactly the importance of people, which has been expressed in a famous word of the great commander, Shingen Takeda, “The people are your castle, your stone walls, your moat. We show compassion for our allies, and vengeance for our enemies.” I still clearly remember that at the celebration ceremony held in November 2009 for the appointment of Juntendo University Professor, I said in the greeting speech, “I am sure to make every effort to create a new course so that everyone can think it is great to have welcomed me as a