Tadamitsu Kishimoto

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Dr. Tadamitsu Kishimoto (岸本忠三; born May 7, 1939 in Osaka) is a Japanese immunologist known for research on IgM and cytokines, most famously, interleukin 6.

He did postdoctoral work under Kimishige Ishizaka, the discoverer of IgE at Johns Hopkins University.

He is listed by the Institute for Scientific Information) (ISI) as a highly cited biologist and he is also in the top ten of h-index of living biologists.

[edit] Honors and Awards

• The 1st Osaka Science Prize (1983)
• Persons on Cultural Merit (1990)
• The Sandoz Prize for Immunology (1992)
• Order of Culture (1998)

[edit] References

• Kishimoto, Tadamitsu, (2004), "INTERLEUKIN-6: From Basic Science to Medicine—40 Years in Immunology". Retrieved June 1, 2006.
• KISHIMOTO, Tadamitsu International Who's Who. accessed September 4, 2006.