Tetsurō Fujiwara

Tetsurō Fujiwara ( Japanese 藤原 哲 郎 , Fujiwara Tetsurō ) is a Japanese doctor ( pediatrics ).

Fujiwara was a scientist at the Akita University Clinic . Fujiwara developed in the early 1980s a treatment for a common illness and cause of death for premature infants, respiratory distress syndrome, RDS (for respiratory distress syndrome, respiratory distress syndrome , more Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome, IRDS, NRDS (Newborn RDS), also hyaline membrane disease, Surfactant deficiency syndrome), which occurs due to the lack of so-called surfactants (surface-active substances) in the as yet undeveloped lungs of premature babies. At that time, Fujiwara and colleagues were able to isolate surfactants from beef and sheep lungs, inject premature babies into the lungs and thus successfully treat IBS. After a development phase of around 10 years, the method established itself in the clinical sector from the beginning of the 1990s. Fujiwara had been researching surfactants at Tohoku University since the 1960s .

In 1996 he and Bengt Robertson , another pioneer of surfactant research, received the König Faisal Prize for Medicine. In 2004 he was also awarded the Virginia Apgar Award and in 2008 the Takeda Igaku Shō ( 武田 医学 賞 , German "Takeda Medicine Prize").

Fonts

• Tetsuro Fujiwara, Shoichi Chida, Yoshitane Watabe, Haruo Maeta, Tomoaki Morita, Tadaaki Abe: Artificial surfactant therapy in hyaline-membrane disease . In: The Lancet . Volume 315, No. 8159 , 1980, pp. 55-59 , doi : 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (80) 90489-4 , PMID 6101413 .

Web links

• Michael Obladen History of the surfactant up to 1980 , Biology of the Neonate 2005, pdf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile (Japanese)
2. ↑ This connection was discovered in 1959 by Mary Ellen Avery (1927-2011)
3. ↑ List of award winners  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ List of the award winners