Kazuo Murakami

Kazuo Murakami ( Japanese 村上 和 雄 , Murakami Kazuo ; * 1936 in Nara ) is a Japanese geneticist .

Scientific career

Murakami received his PhD from Kyoto University Graduate School in 1963 . He was then involved in a research project at the University of Oregon and assistant professor at Vanderbilt University before he was appointed professor at Tsukuba University, one of the leading universities in Japan. He founded the Institute for the Study of the Mind-Gene Relationship . Today he is Professor Emeritus at Tsukuba University. one of the leading universities in Japan.

One of his greatest scientific successes was the genetic decoding of renin , a key enzyme that causes high blood pressure .

Awards

• 1990 Max Planck Research Prize in the Faculty of Biosciences / Medicine.
• 1996 Japan Academy Prize

Fonts

• The divine code of life. A new understanding of genetics . Silberschnur, Güllesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-89845-226-7
• The World Began from a Single Life .

Essays

• With Y. Kon, Y. Hashimoto, H. Kitagawa and M. Sugimura: Intracellular production of adrenal renin in the fetal mouse. An immuno-electron microscopical study. In: Journal of Anatomy . June 1991. PMC 1260310 (free full text)
• T. Inagami and K. Murakami: Pure Renin. Isolation from hog kidney and characterization . In: The Journal of Biological Chemistry. Vol. 252, May 9, 1977. pp. 2978-2983.

Web links

• Short biography, engl.