was a Japanese

virologist Virology is the scientific study of biological viruses. It is a subfield of microbiology that focuses on their detection, structure, classification and evolution, their methods of infection and exploitation of host cells for reproduction, thei ...

. He shared the 1982 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research with

Harold E. Varmus Harold Eliot Varmus (born December 18, 1939) is an American Nobel Prize-winning scientist. He is currently the Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and a senior associate at the New York Genome Center. He was ...

and

J. Michael Bishop John Michael Bishop (born February 22, 1936) is an American immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Harold E. Varmus and was co-winner of 1984 Alfred P. Sloan Prize. He serves as an activ ...

for demonstrating how RNA tumor viruses cause cancer, and elucidating their role in combining, rescuing and maintaining oncogenes in the viral genome.1982 Winners, Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award
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Life

Hidesaburo Hanafusa was born on December 1, 1929, in Hyogo Prefecture."自分の頭で考える～ウイルス研究からがん遺伝子の発見へ～" Biography of Hidesaburo Hanafusa
He received his PhD in

Biochemistry Biochemistry or biological chemistry is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms. A sub-discipline of both chemistry and biology, biochemistry may be divided into three fields: structural biology, enzymology and ...

in 1960 from Osaka University, where he also met his future wife, Teruko. After his research in the US and 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 The Osaka Bioscience Institute was an institute in Osaka, Japan between 1987 and 2015, devoted to the study of bioscience. Scientists from it discovered the retinal protein pikachurin. External links *Japanese Ministry of Education, Sports, Scien ...

. He was a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences and a member of the

Japan Academy The Japan Academy ( Japanese: 日本学士院, ''Nihon Gakushiin'') is an honorary organisation and science academy founded in 1879 to bring together leading Japanese scholars with distinguished records of scientific achievements. The Academy is ...

. 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 The , established in 1929, is an award presented by the Japanese newspaper ''Asahi Shimbun'' and Asahi Shimbun Foundation to honor individuals and groups that have made outstanding accomplishments in the fields of arts and academics and have greatl ...

*1986: G.H. Clowes Memorial award, American Association for Cancer Research *1993:

Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize The Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Prize was a $250,000 award given by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation for outstanding oncological research. The prize was awarded annually from 1979 to 2005. Of the winners, 15 out of 37 have gone on to win eith ...

*1995:

Order of Culture The is a Japanese order, established on February 11, 1937. The order has one class only, and may be awarded to men and women for contributions to Japan's art, literature, science, technology, or anything related to culture in general; recipient ...

*2000: Doctorate of Science, ''honoris causa'', Rockefeller University

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hanafusa, Hidesaburo 1929 births 2009 deaths Cancer researchers Japanese virologists Japanese molecular biologists Recipients of the Order of Culture Recipients of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Rockefeller University faculty Osaka University alumni People from Hyōgo Prefecture Deaths from cancer in Japan Deaths from liver cancer

Life

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