Toshio Hirano
Japanese immunologist and academic (born 1947)
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Born | (1947-04-17) April 17, 1947 (age 77) Osaka |
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Alma mater | Osaka University |
Known for | Discovery of interleukin-6 and its application in treating diseases |
Awards | Crafoord Prize (2009) Japan Prize (2011) |
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Fields | Bioscience and Medical Science |
Toshio Hirano (平野 俊夫, Hirano Toshio, born April 17, 1947 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese immunologist and academic, best known for his discovery of interleukin-6.[1][2] Since August 2011, he has served as the 17th President of Osaka University.
Chronology
- 1972—graduated from Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University[2]
- 1980—assistant professor in the School of Medicine, Kumamoto University[2]
- 1984—assistant professor at Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Osaka University[2]
- 1989—professor at the same university[2]
- 2004—Dean of Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University[2]
- 2008—Dean of Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University[2]
- August 2011—the 17th president of Osaka University[3]
Honors and awards
- Erwin von Balz prize (Japan), 1986
- CIBA-GEIGY Rheumatism Prize (Japan), 1990
- Sandoz Prize for Immunology, 1992
- Osaka Science Prize [ja] (Japan), 1997
- Mochida Memorial Prize (Japan), 1998
- ISI Citation Laureate Award (Japan), 1981–98, 2000
- The Fujihara Award [ja], 2004 The Fujiwara Foundation of Science
- Medical Award of The Japan Medical Association, 2005, The Japan Medical Association
- Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon, April, 2006
- The Crafoord Prize in Polyarthritis 2009
- The Japan Prize for the discovery of interleukin-6, 2011
- Clarivate Citation Laureates, 2021
References
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- ^ "Curriculum Vitae". University of Osaka. Retrieved 2009-07-09.
- ^ a b c d e f g http://www.japanprize.jp/en/prize_prof_2011_hirano.html, the Japan Prize Foundation
- ^ "President's Profile—Osaka University". Archived from the original on 2012-04-04. Retrieved 2011-11-25., Osaka University president profile
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Japan Prize recipients
- John R. Pierce / Ephraim Katchalski-Katzir (1985)
- David Turnbull / Willem J. Kolff (1986)
- Henry Beachell / Gurdev Khush / Theodore Maiman (1987)
- Georges Vendryes / Donald Henderson / Isao Arita / Frank Fenner / Luc Montagnier / Robert Gallo (1988)
- Frank Sherwood Rowland / Elias James Corey (1989)
- Marvin Minsky / W. Jason Morgan / Dan McKenzie / Xavier Le Pichon (1990)
- Jacques-Louis Lions / John J. Wild (1991)
- Gerhard Ertl / Ernest John Christopher Polge (1992)
- Frank Press / Kary B. Mullis (1993)
- William Hayward Pickering / Arvid Carlsson (1994)
- Nick Holonyak Jr. / Edward F. Knipling (1995)
- Charles K. Kao / Masao Ito (1996)
- Takashi Sugimura / Bruce Ames / Joseph Engelberger / Hiroyuki Yoshikawa (1997)
- Leo Esaki / Jozef Schell / Marc Van Montagu (1998)
- W. Wesley Peterson / Jack L. Strominger / Don Craig Wiley (1999)
- Ian McHarg / Kimishige Ishizaka (2000)
- John B. Goodenough / Timothy R. Parsons (2001)
- Tim Berners-Lee / Anne McLaren / Andrzej Tarkowski (2002)
- Benoit Mandelbrot / James A. Yorke / Seiji Ogawa (2003)
- Kenichi Honda / Akira Fujishima / Keith J. Sainsbury / John H. Lawton (2004)
- Makoto Nagao / Masatoshi Takeichi / Erkki Ruoslahti (2005)
- John Houghton / Akira Endo (2006)
- Albert Fert / Peter Grünberg / Peter Shaw Ashton (2007)
- Vint Cerf / Robert E. Kahn / Victor A. McKusick (2008)
- Dennis Meadows / David E. Kuhl (2009)
- Shun-ichi Iwasaki / Peter Vitousek (2010)
- Ken Thompson / Dennis Ritchie / Tadamitsu Kishimoto / Toshio Hirano (2011)
- Janet Rowley / Brian Druker / Nicholas Lydon / Masato Sagawa (2012)
- C. Grant Willson / Jean Fréchet / John Frederick Grassle (2013)
- Yasuharu Suematsu / C. David Allis (2014)
- Yutaka Takahasi / Theodore Friedmann / Alain Fischer (2015)
- Hideo Hosono / Steven D. Tanksley (2016)
- Emmanuelle Charpentier / Jennifer Doudna / Adi Shamir (2017)
- Akira Yoshino / Max Dale Cooper / Jacques Miller (2018)
- Yoshio Okamoto / Rattan Lal (2019)
- Robert G. Gallager / Svante Pääbo (2020)
- Martin A. Green / Bert Vogelstein / Robert A. Weinberg (2021)
- Katalin Karikó / Drew Weissman / Christopher Field (2022)
- Masataka Nakazawa / Kazuo Hagimoto / Gero Miesenböck / Karl Deisseroth (2023)
- Brian Hoskins / John Michael Wallace / Ronald M. Evans (2024)
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