Native name 花房 秀三郎 Name Hidesaburo Hanafusa Cause of death Liver cancer Role Virologist | Nationality Japanese Alma mater Osaka University Spouse(s) Teruko | |
Born December 1, 1929 ( 1929-12-01 ) Hyogo Prefecture Died March 15, 2009, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan Awards Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research | ||
Hidesaburo Hanafusa (花房 秀三郎, Hanafusa Hidesaburō, December 1, 1929 – March 15, 2009) was a Japanese virologist. He shared the 1982 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research with Harold E. Varmus and J. Michael Bishop for demonstrating how RNA tumor viruses cause cancer, and elucidating their role in combining, rescuing and maintaining oncogenes in the viral genome.
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Life
Hidesaburo Hanafusa was born on December 1, 1929, in Hyogo Prefecture. He received his PhD in Biochemistry 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. He was a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences and a member of the Japan Academy.
He died on March 15, 2009, of liver cancer, at the age of 79.