Background
Numa, Shosaku was born on February 7, 1929 in Wakayama, Japan. Son of Shozo and Shizuko Numa.
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biochemist university professor molecular biologist neuroscientist
Numa, Shosaku was born on February 7, 1929 in Wakayama, Japan. Son of Shozo and Shizuko Numa.
He studied at Harvard Medical School with John Lawrence Oncley and worked at the Max Planck Society with Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, before he became Professor of Medical Chemistry at the Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University in 1968.
Fulbright fellow, Department Biological Chemistry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1956-1958; Alexander von Humboldt fellow, Max Planck Institut fur Zellchemie, Munich, Germany, 1958-1961; instructor, Department Medical Chemistry, Kyoto U. Faculty of Medicine, 1961; associate professor, Department Medical Chemistry, Kyoto U. Faculty of Medicine, 1962-1963; professor, Department Medical Chemistry, Kyoto U. Faculty of Medicine, since 1968; professor, Department Molecular Genetics, Kyoto U. Faculty Medicine, since 1985; science assistant, Max-Planck Institut fur Zellchemie, Munich, 1963-1967. Science advisory board Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 1984-1987. External science member Max-Planck Institut for Biochemie, Martinsried, Germany, since 1986.
Member Baverlsche Akademie der Wissenschaften (correspondent member), European Molecular Biology Organization (associate member), Royal Society (foreign member), American Academy Arts and Sciences (foreign honorary member), Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, National Academy of Sciences of United States of America (foreign associate).
Married Irmtrud Doris Graf, May 29, 1963 (divorced 1970). 1 child, Godo.