Makoto Asashima
Makoto Asashima | |
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Nationality | Japanese |
Alma mater | University of Tokyo |
Known for | Activin |
Awards | Imperial Prize (2001) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Developmental biology |
Institutions | Tokyo University of Science AIST, Japan University of Tokyo Yokohama City University Free University of Berlin |
Makoto Asashima (
Contribution[edit]
Asashima and his colleagues identified Activin in 1990, which exhibits a wide range of biological activities including regulation of cellular proliferation and differentiation.[2]
Biography[edit]
Asashima was born in Sado, Niigata in 1944.[3] He graduated from Tokyo University of Education in March 1967, and received his Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo in 1972.[4] He was a postdoctoral fellow under Heinz Tiedemann at Free University of Berlin between 1972 and 1974, and a member of the faculty of Yokohama City University between 1972 and 1993, before being appointed as a professor at The University of Tokyo in 1993.[4]
Recognition[edit]
- 1994: Kihara Memorial Foundation Academic Award (Japan)[4]
- 2001: Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy (Japan)[4]
- 2008: Person of Cultural Merit (Japan)[4]
- 2008: Erwin-Stein-Preises (Germany)[4]
References[edit]
- ^ ASASHIMA Makoto Archived 2019-01-14 at the Wayback Machine RIDAI
- ^ Asashima, M.; Nakano, H.; Shimada, K.; Kinoshita, K.; Ishii, K.; Shibai, H.; Ueno, N. (1990). "Mesodermal induction in early amphibian embryos by activin A (erythroid differentiation factor)". Roux's Archives of Developmental Biology. 198 (6): 330–335. doi:10.1007/BF00383771. PMID 28305412. S2CID 20766573.
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変 わらない熱情 で、中 胚葉 へと変 わる過程 を見 る” Biography of Makoto Asashima (in Japanese) - ^ a b c d e f "Makoto Asashima, Ph.D." Japan: Advanced Industrial Science Technology. August 2010. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 29 January 2014.