Background
Nagata, Shigekazu was born on July 15, 1949 in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. Son of Saichi and Sui Nagata.
長田 重一
biochemist immunologist university professor molecular biologist
Nagata, Shigekazu was born on July 15, 1949 in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. Son of Saichi and Sui Nagata.
Bachelor of Science, University Tokyo, 1972. Master of Science, University Tokyo, 1974. Doctor of Philosophy, University Tokyo, 1977.
Nagata identified Interferon in 1980 and Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor in 1986. He also identified a death factor (Fas receptor) in 1991 and its ligand (Fas ligand) in 1993, and elucidated their physiological and pathological roles in Apoptosis. He served as a postdoctoral fellow under Charles Weissmann at University of Zurich, where he worked on sequencing the cDNA of Interferon gene between 1977 and 1981.
He was Assistant professor at the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo between 1982 and 1987, and Head of Department of molecular biology at Osaka Bioscience Institute between 1987 and 1998, and Professor of genetics at Osaka University Medical School between 1995 and 2007, before being appointed as Professor of medical chemistry at the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University in 2007.
1994: Emil von Boehring Prize, Marburg University (Marburg, Germany).
Japan Academy; National Academy of Sciences]
He was elected a member of the Japan Academy in 2010. 2015: Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
Married Miwako Yamada, March 6, 1977. Children: Mizuki, Misako.