Setsuro Ebashi
Encyclopedia
was a Japanese biophysicist. He was Professor Emeritus of National Institute for Physiological Sciences
. He was awarded the 1972 Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy
, the 1999 International Prize for Biology, the Order of the Sacred Treasure
, and an Order of Culture
.
with an MD in 1944, and Doctor of Medical Sciences (PhD) in 1954.
He was Guest Investigator of the Rockefeller Institute from January to December 1959, where he studied with Fritz Lipmann. He was Chair of Pharmacology at the University of Tokyo, School of Medicine, from May 1959 until March 1983.
He was Chair of Biophysics at the University of Tokyo School of Sciences, from May 1971 to March 1983.
National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan
The is an inter-university research institute corporation consisting of five member institutes: the National Astronomical Observatory , the National Institute for fusion Science , the National Institute for Basic Biology , the National Institute for Physiological Sciences , and the Institutes for...
. He was awarded the 1972 Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy
Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy
The was a prestigious honor conferred by the Imperial Academy from 1911 through 1945. The award was presented to non-members in recognition of their academic theses, books, and achievements....
, the 1999 International Prize for Biology, the Order of the Sacred Treasure
Order of the Sacred Treasure
The is a Japanese Order, established on January 4, 1888 by Emperor Meiji of Japan as the Order of Meiji. It is awarded in eight classes . It is generally awarded for long and/or meritorious service and considered to be the lowest of the Japanese orders of merit...
, and an Order of Culture
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 or culture; recipients of the order also receive an annuity for life...
.
Life
He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of TokyoUniversity of Tokyo
, abbreviated as , is a major research university located in Tokyo, Japan. The University has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano. It is considered to be the most prestigious university...
with an MD in 1944, and Doctor of Medical Sciences (PhD) in 1954.
He was Guest Investigator of the Rockefeller Institute from January to December 1959, where he studied with Fritz Lipmann. He was Chair of Pharmacology at the University of Tokyo, School of Medicine, from May 1959 until March 1983.
He was Chair of Biophysics at the University of Tokyo School of Sciences, from May 1971 to March 1983.
Works
- Hiroshi Yoshida, Yashiro Hagihara, Setsuro Ebashi (ed) Advances in pharmacology and therapeutics II Pergamon, 1982, ISBN 9780080280226
- Novel developments on genetic recombination: dna double-strand break and dna end-joining, Japan Scientific Soc. Press, 2004
- Setsuro Ebashi, E. Ozawa (ed) Muscular Dystrophy: Biomedical Aspects, Springer Verlag, 1983, ISBN 9780387123424
- Protein array: an alternative biomolecular system Japan Scientific Soc. Press, 1997
- Muscle elastic proteins, Japan Scientific Soc. Press, 1996
External links
- Biophysics in Japan, its Past, Present and Future
- http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v442/n7106/full/442996a.html