Ebina Toshiaki

Ebina Toshiaki ( Japanese 海 老 名 敏明 ; * 1899 ; † 1990 ) was director of the Leprosy and Tuberculosis Research Center at Tōhoku University, founded in 1941 from 1948 to 1963 .

Among other things, he dealt with the metabolism of tuberculosis and leprosy bacteria and that of cancer cells (using methods from Otto Warburg and his school) and further developed the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis.

In 1960 he received the Robert Koch Prize . In 1955 he received the Asahi Prize for his research into a manufacturing method for the BCG vaccine.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 東北 大学 加 齢 医学 研究所 - 沿革 ( Memento of the original from June 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Japanese) 
2. ↑ 国立 国会 図 書館 (Japanese) Entry in the Japanese Parliamentary Library
3. ↑ later called Research Center for Cancer and Tuberculosis, today Institute for Development, Aging and Cancer, history of the institute from the official website ( memento of the original from May 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Toshiaki Ebina, Takashi Nakamura: About the metabolism of acid-fast bacilli. I. Mitt. On respiration and glycolysis , Tohoku J. exper. Med., Vol. 81, 1937, pp. 60-71. Ebina, Nakamura Influence of gas composition on the growth of tubercle bacilli , Kekkaku (Tuberculosis), Volume 15, 1937
5. ↑ Ebina on the metabolism of rabbit sarcoma , Tohoku J. exp. Med. Volume 13, 1929, pp. 424-444
6. ↑ 朝日 賞

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Ebina is the family name, Toshiaki the first name.