Ishida Kao - Ishida Kao

Japanese: 石田名香雄 - いしだなかお

Born: March 6, 1923 in Niigata, Joetsu
[Died] December 4, 2009. Sendai, Miyagi. Bacteriologist, former president of Tohoku University. Graduated from Tohoku University School of Medicine in 1946, and became an associate professor in 1951. In 1953, he discovered the Sendai virus, a new virus with red blood cell agglutination ability that is antigenically different from influenza virus. In 1954, he studied at the University of Michigan Virus Research Institute in the United States. In 1960, he became a professor at Tohoku University School of Medicine. He continued to study the structure of the Sendai virus, and was the first in the world to elucidate the mechanism by which the Sendai virus infects and multiplies in cells. He also discovered that this mechanism is common to many viruses, which led to the elucidation of the true nature of hepatitis B and the development of a vaccine, contributing to the drastic reduction of hepatitis B, which was said to be a national disease of the 21st century, and was highly regarded both in Japan and abroad as a leading figure in the field of virology. He was dean of Tohoku University School of Medicine in 1975, and served as president from 1983 to 1989. He received the Noguchi Hideyo Memorial Prize for Medicine in 1980, the Japan Academy Prize in 1987, and the Order of the Sacred Treasure, First Class, in 1996.

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Japanese:

[生]1923.3.6. 新潟，上越
[没]2009.12.4. 宮城，仙台
細菌学者，元東北大学総長。1946年東北大学医学部を卒業，1951年助教授。1953年にインフルエンザウイルスと抗原性が異なる赤血球凝縮能をもつ新種のウイルス「センダイウイルス」を発見した。1954年にアメリカ合衆国のミシガン大学ウイルス研究所に留学。1960年東北大学医学部教授に就任した。その後もセンダイウイルスの構造研究を続け，センダイウイルスが細胞に感染し，増殖する仕組みを世界にさきがけて解明した。また，その仕組みが多くのウイルスでも共通に見られることがわかり，B型肝炎の本態解明の契機となり，ワクチン開発につながるなど，21世紀の国民病といわれた B型肝炎の激減に貢献，ウイルス学分野の第一人者として国内外から高い評価を受けた。1975年東北大学医学部長，1983～89年総長を務めた。1980年に野口英世記念医学賞，1987年には日本学士院賞，1996年勲一等瑞宝章を受けた。

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