is a Japanese biochemist. Mizuuchi completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Osaka University. He received the NAS Award in Molecular Biology 1989, and he was named a foreign associate of the

United States National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nati ...

in 1994, while working for the

National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) is part of the United States National Institutes of Health, which in turn is part of the Department of Health and Human Services. NIDDK is approximately the fifth-largest ...

(NIDDKD). In 2016, Mizuuchi and his postdoctoral fellow Anthony Vecchiarelli won the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)'s BioArt competition by videotaping the oscillations of fluorescently-labeled

Min system The Min System is a mechanism composed of three proteins MinC, MinD, and MinE used by ''E. coli'' as a means of properly localizing the septum prior to cell division. Each component participates in generating a dynamic oscillation of FtsZ protei ...

proteins involved in bacterial septum localization.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mizuuchi, Kiyoshi Living people Osaka University alumni Japanese expatriates in the United States Japanese biochemists Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Year of birth missing (living people)