Native name 森 和俊 Role Molecular Biologist Nationality Japanese Alma mater Kyoto University | Institutions Kyoto University Institution Kyoto University Name Kazutoshi Mori | |
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Known for Unfolded protein response Notable awards Gairdner Foundation International Award, Wiley Prize, Asahi Prize, Lasker Award Awards Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Gairdner Foundation International Award Fields Molecular biology, Cell biology Similar People Peter Walter, Mahlon DeLong, Gunter Blobel | ||
Kazutoshi Mori: 2018 Breakthrough Prize Symposium
Kazutoshi Mori (森 和俊, Mori Kazutoshi, born 1958) is a Japanese molecular biologist known for research on unfolded protein response. He is a professor of Biophysics at the Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, and shared the 2014 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award with Peter Walter for discoveries concerning the unfolded protein response — an intracellular quality control system that detects harmful misfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum and signals the nucleus to carry out corrective measures.
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Mori was born in 1958 in Kurashiki, Okayama, and graduated from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Kyoto University in 1981. He was appointed as an assistant professor at Gifu Pharmaceutical University in 1985, before becoming a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 1989. He was a researcher at the HSP (Heat Shock Protein) Research Institute in Kyoto from 1993 to 1999, and has been a member of the faculty of Kyoto University since 1999.