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Takao SHIMIZU

Representative Director, Microbial Chemistry Research Foundation (MCRF) and Director
Institute of Microbial Chemistry

Biography

1973MD, The University of Tokyo
1973-1975Clinical research fellow, the University of Tokyo Hospital
1975-1979Research Assistant, Kyoto University School of Medicine
1979-1982Assistant Professor, Medical Chemistry, Kyoto University School of Medicine
1980Ph. D., Kyoto University of School of Medicine
1982-1984Visiting Scientist, Department of Physiological Chemistry, Karolinska Institutet
1984-1991Associate Professor, Physiological Chemistry and Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
1991-2012Professor and Chair, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
2003-2007Vice Dean of Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
2003-2007Director of Institute for Disease Biology and Integrated Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
2004-2008Science Advisor, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
2007-2011Dean of Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
2011-2013Executive Vice President, The University of Tokyo
2011-2019Project Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Lipidomics), Faculty of Medicine, the University of Tokyo
2012-presentProject Leader, Department of Lipid Signaling, National Center for Global Health and Medicine
2012-2017Vice President, Japanese Medical Association
2013-2016Director-General, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine
2013-2017Executive Director, National Center for Global Health and Medicine
2017-presentRepresentative Director, Microbial Chemistry Research Foundation (MCRF)
2022-presentDirector, Institute of Microbial Chemistry

Awards

1981Young Investigator Award from the Japanese Biochemical Society
1998Honorary member of American Association of Physician
2000Ernst Schering Prize, Germany
2000Medical Award of the Japanese Medical Association
2000Foreign Members of American Association of Physicians (AAP)
2001Mochida Memorial Foundation for Medical and Pharmaceutical Research, Japan
2003Medical Award of Takeda Science Foundation, Japan
2004Prize from Uehara Memorial Foundation, Japan
2009Japan Academy Prize, Japan
200950th Memorial Lecture Award of Journal of Lipid Research, USA
2013Life-Time Achievement Award by 5th International Conference of PLA2, USA
2013Outstanding Achievement Award, Eicosanoid Research Foundation, USA
2020The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon