Shosaku Numa

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Shōsaku Numa ( Japanese 沼 正 作 , Numa Shōsaku ; born February 7, 1929 in Wakayama Prefecture ; † February 15, 1992 ) was a Japanese molecular biologist and biochemist.

Numa studied medicine at Kyoto University , where he graduated in 1952. After receiving his doctorate, he went to Harvard University Medical School (Department of Biochemistry) as a Fulbright scholar in 1956 . In 1958 he went to Feodor Lynen at the Max Planck Institute in Munich , where he dealt with enzyme research and the regulation of lipid metabolism. In 1961 he was back at the University of Kyoto (interrupted in 1963 by another stay with Lynen in Munich), where he became a professor in the department of medicinal chemistry in 1968.

Numa pioneered the use of molecular biology techniques to clone and study receptors (such as the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor ) and ion channels (such as the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor ) in nerve cells.

He was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (1979), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1986), a foreign member of the Royal Society (1986) and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1991). In 1987/88 he was a Harvey Lecturer . Numa was honored with the Japan Academy Prize in 1985 . In 1973 he received the Heinrich Wieland Prize and in 1987 the Otto Warburg Medal . In 1990 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . Numa was honored in 1991 as a person of special cultural merit .

literature

  • H. Imura, in: Biographical Memoirs Fellows of the Royal Society , 1995, ISSN  1748-8494

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] Ernst JM Helmreich: Shosaku Numa (February 7, 1929 - February 15, 1992). Obituary - Bavarian Academy of Sciences (PDF file)
  2. ↑ Osamu Hayaishi: Shosaku Numa 1927-1992. In: Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 17, 1992, p. 327, doi : 10.1016 / 0968-0004 (92) 90304-R .
  3. ↑ In a series of works in the early 1980s that were published in Nature, among others
  4. ↑ H. Imura: Shosaku Numa. 7 February 1929-15 February 1992. In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 41, 1995, p. 310, doi : 10.1098 / rsbm.1995.0019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Numa, Shosaku
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 沼 正 作 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese molecular biologist and biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Wakayama Prefecture
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1992