Teruko Ishizaka
Teruko Ishizaka | |
|---|---|
| Born | Teruko Matsuura 28 September 1926 |
| Died | 4 June 2019 (aged 92) |
| Citizenship | Japan |
| Education | Tokyo Women's Medical School University of Tokyo (PhD) |
| Known for | Discovery of IgE |
| Spouse | Kimishige Ishizaka |
| Awards | Passano Award (1972) Gairdner Foundation International Award (1973) Asahi Prize (1973) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Immunology |
| Institutions | California Institute of Technology Johns Hopkins University |
Teruko "Terry" Ishizaka (石坂 照子, Ishizaka Teruko, 28 September 1926 – 4 June 2019)[1] was a Japanese scientist and immunologist who along with her husband Kimishige Ishizaka discovered the antibody class Immunoglobulin E (IgE) in 1966.[2]
Biography
Ishizaka was born in Japan on September 28, 1926. She received a doctorate in medicine from Tokyo Women's Medical School in 1949 and a PhD from the University of Tokyo in 1955. Working alongside fellow scientist Kimishige Ishizaka whom she married in 1949 she spent eight years at Professor Nakamura’s laboratory where she studied the mechanisms of anaphylaxis. In 1957 the couple joined a laboratory at the California Institute of Technology to study the Immune complex before returning to Japan leaving the Japanese National Institutes of Health to continue their work. By 1962 the Ishizakas were recruited to the Asthma Research Institute and Hospital in Denver where they announced their discovery of the IgE antibody class in 1966.[2] At about the same time, S.G.O Johansson and Hans Bennich made the same discovery in Uppsala, Sweden. They published a joint paper in April 1969.[3]
For their achievements the couple were awarded the Passano Foundation Award in 1972 and the Gairdner Foundation International Award in 1973 and the Borden Award in 1979.[4]
See also
References
- ^ 石坂照子さんが死去 免疫学者 Template:Ja icon
- ^ a b Cohen, Sheldon. "The Ishizakas and the search for reaginic antibodies". The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
- ^ Ishizaka,, Teruko; Ishizaka, Kimishige; Johansson, S. Gunnar O.; Bennich, Hans (1969). "Histamine Release from Human Leukocytes by Anti-λE Antibodies". Journal of Immunology. 102 (4): 884–892.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) - ^ "Trend-Setting Women Scientists of Biomedical Research in Japan" (PDF). International Journal of Medical Sciences. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
- 1926 births
- 2019 deaths
- Japanese women scientists
- University of Tokyo alumni
- Women immunologists
- 20th-century Japanese scientists
- 21st-century Japanese scientists
- Japanese immunologists
- California Institute of Technology faculty
- University of Colorado Denver faculty
- Johns Hopkins University faculty
- Japanese expatriates in the United States