Makoto Asashima
{{short description|Japanese developmental biologist|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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{{Nihongo|Makoto Asashima|浅島 誠|Asashima Makoto|born 1944}} is a Japanese developmental biologist known for his pioneer research on Activin. He is Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo and Yokohama City University. He is also Vice President of the Tokyo University of Science.[https://www.tus.ac.jp/ridai/doc/ji/RIJIA01Detail.php?act=nam&kin=ken&diu=6c9b&pri=enl ASASHIMA Makoto] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114044503/https://www.tus.ac.jp/ridai/doc/ji/RIJIA01Detail.php?act=nam&kin=ken&diu=6c9b&pri=enl |date=2019-01-14 }} RIDAI
Contribution
Asashima and his colleagues identified Activin in 1990, which exhibits a wide range of biological activities including regulation of cellular proliferation and differentiation.{{Cite journal | last1 = Asashima | first1 = M. | last2 = Nakano | first2 = H. | last3 = Shimada | first3 = K. | last4 = Kinoshita | first4 = K. | last5 = Ishii | first5 = K. | last6 = Shibai | first6 = H. | last7 = Ueno | first7 = N. | doi = 10.1007/BF00383771 | title = Mesodermal induction in early amphibian embryos by activin A (erythroid differentiation factor) | journal = Roux's Archives of Developmental Biology | volume = 198 | issue = 6 | pages = 330–335 | year = 1990 | pmid = 28305412 | s2cid = 20766573 }}
Biography
Asashima was born in Sado, Niigata in 1944.[http://www.brh.co.jp/s_library/j_site/scientistweb/no76/ “変わらない熱情で、中胚葉へと変わる過程を見る” Biography of Makoto Asashima] {{in lang|ja}} He graduated from Tokyo University of Education in March 1967, and received his Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo in 1972.{{cite web|url= https://unit.aist.go.jp/scrc/cie/intro/asashima_en.html|title= Makoto Asashima, Ph.D.|date= August 2010|publisher= Advanced Industrial Science Technology|location= Japan|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140202105448/https://unit.aist.go.jp/scrc/cie/intro/asashima_en.html|archive-date= 2014-02-02|access-date= 29 January 2014|url-status= dead}} He was a postdoctoral fellow under Heinz Tiedemann at Free University of Berlin between 1972 and 1974, and a member of the faculty of Yokohama City University between 1972 and 1993, before being appointed as a professor at The University of Tokyo in 1993.
Recognition
- 1994: Kihara Memorial Foundation Academic Award (Japan)
- 2001: Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy (Japan)
- 2008: Person of Cultural Merit (Japan)
- 2008: Erwin-Stein-Preises (Germany)
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20140202105448/https://unit.aist.go.jp/scrc/cie/intro/asashima_en.html AIST profile]
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Category:People from Sado, Niigata
Category:Scientists from Niigata Prefecture
Category:Developmental biologists
Category:Academic staff of Yokohama City University
Category:Academic staff of the University of Tokyo
Category:University of Tokyo alumni