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Hidesaburo Hanafusa (花房 秀三郎, Hanafusa Hidesaburō, December 1, 1929 – March 15, 2009) was a Japanese virologist. He shared the 1982 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research with Harold E. Varmus and J. Michael Bishop for demonstrating how RNA tumor viruses cause cancer, and elucidating their role in combining, rescuing and maintaining oncogenes in the viral genome.




Life


Hidesaburo Hanafusa was born on December 1, 1929, in Hyogo Prefecture. He received his PhD in Biochemistry in 1960 from Osaka University, where he also met his future wife, Teruko. After his research at the University of California, Berkeley and in France, he was appointed as professor of molecular oncology at the Rockefeller University in 1973, and returned to Japan in 1998, becoming director at the Osaka Bioscience Institute.
He was a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences and a member of the Japan Academy.
He died on March 15, 2009, of liver cancer, at the age of 79.




Awards


1982: Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
1983: Asahi Prize
1986: G.H. Clowes Memorial award, American Association for Cancer Research
1993: Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize
1995: Order of Culture
2000: Doctorate of Science, honoris causa, Rockefeller University




See also


List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Medical genetics, hematology, and oncology)




References






External links


"Hidesaburo Hanafusa". The Rockefeller University.

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• Penghargaan Albert Lasker untuk Penelitian Kedokteran Dasar
• Hidesaburo Hanafusa
• Sally Kornbluth
• Osaka University
• Avery August
• Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
• Asahi Prize
• Anindya Dutta
• Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Prize
• Marius Sudol
• Harry Rubin (virologist)