Tomoji Yanagita

Background

Yanagita, Tomoji was born on October 23, 1930 in Ashikaga, Tochigi, Japan. Son of Haruji and Kimi Yanagita.

Education

Doctor of Medicine, Jikei University, Tokyo, 1955. Doctor of Philosophy, Jikei University, Tokyo, 1961.

Career

Research associate pharmacology, Jikei U., Tokyo, 1956-1960; postdoctoral fellow pharmacology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1960-1962; instructor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1962-1965; lecturer, Jikei U., Tokyo, 1965-1986; professor, Jikei U., Tokyo, since 1986; laboratory director, Center Institute for Experimental Animals, Kawasaki, Japan, 1966-1997; science adviser, INA Research Inc., Nagano, Japan, since 1997. Advisory panel on drug dependence World Health Organization, Geneva, since 1977, Japanese Government, Tokyo, 1978-1992.

Achievements

• Tomoji Yanagita has been listed as a noteworthy pharmacologist, researcher by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Anti-Drug Abuse Committee of Kanagawa Prefecture, Yokohama, Japan, since 1982. Secretary-general 17th Congress of International Neurpsychopharmacology, 1990. Treasurer 5th World Conference Clinical Pharmacology and Therapy, 1992.

Member Japanese Society Clinical Pharmacology (secretary 1981-1996, president 1992-1993), Japanese Society Neuropsychopharmacology (secretary since 1981, president 1986-1987), Japanese Society Toxocological Sciences (board directors 1975-1996, president 1987-1988), Japanese Medical Society Alcohol Studies (board directors 1975-1996, president 1995-1996), Japanese Pharmacological Society (board directors 1984-1994), Center Institute for Experimental Animals (board directors 1986-1997), Asian Society Toxicology (president 1994-1997), Japan Society Quality Assurance (president since 1997).

Interests

• Avocations: golf, Japanese chess, singing, playing musical instruments.

Connections

Married Teruko Nagasawa, January 11, 1959. Children: Yuriko, Noriko, Kyoko.

Father:

Haruji Yanagita

Mother:

Kimi Yanagita

Spouse:

Teruko Nagasawa

child:

Noriko Yanagita

child:

Yuriko Yanagita

child:

Kyoko Yanagita