Education
Omura graduated from the University of Yamanashi, he received his Master of Surgery degree from Tokyo University of Science and his Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Tokyo and a Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry at the Tokyo University of Science.
Career
He is known for the discovery and development of various pharmaceuticals originally occurring in microorganisms. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with William C. Campbell and Tu Youyou. Satoshi Ōmura is professor emeritus at Kitasato University and Max Tishler Professor of Chemistry at Wesleyan University.
He is known for the discovery and development of various pharmaceuticals originally occurring in microorganisms.
He was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with William C. Campbell and Tu Youyou for discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites. More precisely, his research group isolated a strain of Streptomyces avermitilis that produce the anti-parasitical compound avermectin.
Campbell later acquired these bacteria and developed the derived drug ivermectin that is today used against river blindness, lymphatic filariasis and other parasitic infections. Scientific and academic National Membership in learned societies Other.
Membership
Japan Academy; Chinese Academy of Engineering. National Academy of Sciences. Royal Society of Chemistry.