Shimon Sakaguchi

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Shimon Sakaguchi (2017)

Shimon Sakaguchi ( Japanese 坂 口 志 文 Sakaguchi Shimon ; born January 19, 1951 in Nagahama ) is a Japanese immunologist at Osaka University . He is best known for discovering regulatory T cells , describing their role in the immune system, and applying these findings in the treatment of autoimmune diseases and cancer .

Life

Sakaguchi earned an MD in 1976 and a Ph.D. in 1982. , both at Kyoto University . Here he also received his further training in pathology and immunology . He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University and Stanford University . In 1989 he received his first professorship (assistant professor) at the Scripps Research Institute , but went back to Japan in 1991, where he first conducted research at RIKEN and then took over the management of the Department of Immunopathology at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute .

In 1999 he was appointed professor of experimental pathology at the University of Kyoto, and in 2007 he became head of the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences. In 2011 he became a professor at the Immunology Frontier Research Center at Osaka University , which he now heads.

Thomson Reuters has been one of the favorites for a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine since 2015 .

Awards (selection)

Web links

Commons : Shimon Sakaguchi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae. (PDF; 103 kB) In: ksimm.or.kr. The Korean Association of Immunologists, August 30, 2017, accessed January 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Interview with Sakaguchi on Shiga Prefecture website, July 1, 2015, accessed January 22, 2020.
  3. ↑ Announcing the 2015 Citation Laureates , at Thomson Reuters.
  4. ^ William B. Coley Award at the Cancer Research Institute (cancerresearch.org); Retrieved March 25, 2015.
  5. ↑ The 2008 Keio Medical Science Prize Awardees at Keiō University (keio.ac.jp); Retrieved March 25, 2015.
  6. ^ The Asahi Prize at Asahi Shimbun-sha (asahi.com); Retrieved March 25, 2015.
  7. ↑ Shimon Sakaguchi at the National Academy of Sciences (nasonline.org); Retrieved March 25, 2015.
  8. ↑ Shimon Sakaguchi MD, PhD at the Gairdner Foundation (gairdner.org); Retrieved March 25, 2015.
  9. ↑ Medicine Prize for Japanese Immunologists at tagesschau.de from January 21, 2020; accessed on January 21, 2020
  10. ↑ Robert Koch Prize 2020
personal data
SURNAME Sakaguchi, Shimon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 坂口 志 文 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese immunologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Nagahama