Mitsuaki Yoshida

Mitsuaki Yoshida (吉田 光昭, Yoshida Mitsuaki, born 1939) was a Japanese virologist known for identifying the molecular structure of Human T-lymphotropic virus 1 responsible for Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma.[1][2]

Mitsuaki Yoshida
NationalityJapanese
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo
Known forHuman T-lymphotropic virus 1
AwardsAsahi Prize
Scientific career
FieldsMolecular biology, Virology
InstitutionsUniversity of Tokyo
Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Life

Yoshida was born in Toyama, Japan and received his Ph.D. in 1967 from the University of Tokyo.[3] After his postdoctoral fellowship at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, he worked to uncover the relationship between oncovirus and carcinogenesis at the Cancer Institute, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research from 1975 to 1989.[3] He was appointed as Professor at the Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo in 1989, where he served as Dean from 1996 to 1998.[3] After retiring from the University of Tokyo and becoming Professor Emeritus, he was Director at the Tsukuba Research Institute of BANYU Pharmaceutical Co. (Merck & Co. today) in Tsukuba and Director at the Cancer Chemotherapy Center, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research.[4]

Awards

References
  1. Yoshida, M; Miyoshi, I; Hinuma, Y (1982). "Isolation and characterization of retrovirus from cell lines of human adult T-cell leukemia and its implication in the disease". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 79 (6): 2031–5. doi:10.1073/pnas.79.6.2031. PMC 346116. PMID 6979048.
  2. Yoshida, M (2005). "Discovery of HTLV-1, the first human retrovirus, its unique regulatory mechanisms, and insights into pathogenesis". Oncogene. 24 (39): 5931–7. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1208981. PMID 16155600.
  3. "ヒトのがんウイルスに挑む" Biography of Mitsuaki Yoshida(in Japanese)
  4. 吉田光昭|研究者紹介|がん研究所 Profile of Mitsuaki Yoshida(in Japanese)
  5. Asahi Prize recipients
  6. 第8回 平成11年|8th recipient(in Japanese)
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