At the 2024 19th “L’Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science Japan Encouragement Award” ceremony, Akari Hashimoto from Nagoya University’s Hiroaki Wake laboratory was recognized as a leader of young woman scientists in molecular/cellular biology. As a participant in the ASPIRE Glia initiative, her groundbreaking research sheds light on mechanisms that contribute to the brain’s integration and differentiation of multisensory information by microglia. This discovery paves the way for deeper insights into how the brain handles complex sensory inputs.