Tadatsugu Taniguchi

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Tadatsugu Taniguchi
谷口 維紹
Robert Koch Prize
Japan Academy Prize
Keio Medical Science Prize (1997)
Asahi Prize (1988)
Scientific career
FieldsImmunology
Oncology
InstitutionsUniversity of Tokyo
Osaka University
New York University
Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research
Doctoral advisorCharles Weissmann

Tadatsugu Taniguchi (谷口 維紹, Taniguchi Tadatsugu, born January 1, 1948 in

Interferons and Interferon regulatory factors
.

Contribution

Taniguchi's work is mostly focused on

cDNA, and identified two cytokine genes, interferon-beta and interleukin-2.[1][2] These advances helped characterize various cytokines and discover a new family of transcription factors, interferon regulatory factors, which play essential roles in the immune system and cancer.[3]

Biography

After graduating in biology from the

New York University School of Medicine.[4]

Honors and awards

Taniguchi received numerous awards, including the Milstein Award,

Robert Koch Prize (1991), Keio Medical Science Prize (1997), Japan Academy Prize (2000), Pezcoller-AACR International Award for Cancer Research (2006) and Tomizo Yoshida Award of the Japanese Cancer Association
(2008).

He was selected as a Person of Cultural Merit by the Government of Japan and as an honorary doctor by the University of Zurich (2007). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (since 2003) and an honorary citizen of Aridagawa, Wakayama (since 2010).

In 2023, he received the Order of Culture.[6]

Editorial activities

He is an editor of the journals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, eLife and Immunity.[3][4]

See also

References

  1. PMID 6157601
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  2. PMID 6159642
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  3. ^ a b c Tadatsugu Taniguchi, Senior editor – Immunology Archived 2013-10-12 at the Wayback Machine. elifesciences.org
  4. ^ a b Biography of Tadatsugu Taniguchi. iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
  5. ^ Tadatsugu Taniguchi. Ph.D. milstein-award.org
  6. ^ "塩野七生さんら7人文化勲章 功労者に北大路欣也さんら". Jiji Press. Retrieved October 21, 2023.

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