Takao Shimizu (biochemist)
Takao Shimizu ( Japanese 清水 孝 雄 , Shimizu Takao ; born April 26, 1947 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese biochemist .
Life
In 1968 Shimizu graduated from the University of Tokyo with a degree in Liberal Arts . At the same university he studied medicine , which he completed in 1973 with an MD . Until 1975 Shimizu worked as an intern in internal medicine at Tokyo University Hospital before he went to the Department of Biochemistry at Kyoto University as a research assistant . In 1977 he got a position as Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at Hayaishi Osamu and in 1980 earned a Ph.D. with his thesis Metabolism and function of prostaglandin D in the brain and blood platelets. in medical sciences. From 1982 to 1984 Shimizu worked as a visiting researcher with Bengt Samuelsson at the Karolinska Institutet near Stockholm
In 1984 Shimizu became Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Nutrition at the University of Tokyo , and in 1991 he was given a full professorship in Biochemistry. From 2003 Shimizu was vice dean of the local medical faculty, since 2007 he has been dean .
Shimizu is married and has two children.
Act
Shimizu's work is primarily concerned with the metabolism of phosphoglycerides and that of lipids with a messenger function (lipid mediators) , in particular eicosanoids , including prostaglandins and leukotrienes . He succeeded in isolating numerous enzymes that are involved in the dynamic remodeling of biomembranes or the synthesis of lipid messenger substances, and he cloned G-protein-coupled receptors for lipid messengers. Shimizu developed a method of liquid chromatography with mass spectrometry coupling for the quantification of a large number of lipid messenger substances and membrane phospholipids . His research focuses on the question of what differences in the structure and function of biological membranes are caused by lipid messengers.
Awards (selection)
- 2000 Ernst Schering Prize
- 2009 Japan Academy Prize from the Japanese Academy of Sciences
Web links
- Takao Shimizu, MD Ph.D. at the University hospital Medical Information Network
- Shimizu Lab at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Tokyo
- Takao SHIMIZU at the University of Tokyo Center for NanoBio Integration
- Takao Shimizu at Faculty of 1000
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst Schering Prize 2000 from the Schering Foundation
- ↑ Japan Academy Prize to Takao Shimizu (PDF)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shimizu, Takao |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 清水 孝 雄 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese biochemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo prefecture |