Kazutoshi Mori

Kazutoshi Mori
Native name	森和俊
Born	1958 (age 57–58) Kurashiki, Okayama
Nationality	Japanese
Fields	Molecular biology Cell biology
Institutions	Kyoto University
Alma mater	Kyoto University
Known for	Unfolded protein response
Notable awards	Canada Gairdner International Award Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences Asahi Prize Lasker Award

Kazutoshi Mori (森和俊, Mori Kazutoshi, born 1958) is a Japanese molecular biologist known for research on unfolded protein response. He is a professor of Biophysics at the Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University.^[1]

Life

Mori was born in 1958 in Kurashiki, Okayama, and graduated from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Kyoto University in 1981. He was appointed as an assistant professor at Gifu Pharmaceutical University in 1985, before becoming a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 1989. He was a researcher at the HSP (Heat Shock Protein) Research Institute in Kyoto from 1993 to 1999, and has been a member of the faculty of Kyoto University since 1999.^[2]

Honors and awards

2005: Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences (with Peter Walter)^[3]
2009: Canada Gairdner International Award (with Peter Walter)^[4]
2013: Asahi Prize^[5]
2014: Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine (with Peter Walter)^[6]
2014: Lasker Award (with Peter Walter) for discoveries concerning the unfolded protein response — an intracellular quality control system that detects harmful misfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum and signals the nucleus to carry out corrective measures^[7]
2015: Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates (with Peter Walter)

References

↑ Department of Biophysics, Kyoto University
↑ Professor Kazutoshi Mori (Japanese)
↑ Past Winners, Wiley Prize
↑ Kazutoshi Mori PhD, Recipient of the Canada Gairdner International Award, 2009
↑ The Asahi Prize
↑ "Announcement Press Conference". The Shaw Prize. The Shaw Prize Foundation. 2014. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
↑ "Current Winners". Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. Lasker Foundation. 2014. Retrieved 16 January 2015.

External links

Mori Research Lab, Kyoto University

Shaw Prize laureates

Astronomy	Jim Peebles (2004) Geoffrey Marcy and Michel Mayor (2005) Saul Perlmutter, Adam Riess and Brian Schmidt (2006) Peter Goldreich (2007) Reinhard Genzel (2008) Frank Shu (2009) Charles Bennett, Lyman Page and David Spergel (2010) Enrico Costa and Gerald Fishman (2011) David Jewitt and Jane Luu (2012) Steven Balbus and John Hawley (2013) Daniel Eisenstein, Shaun Cole and John Peacock (2014) William Borucki (2015)

Life science and medicine	Stanley Norman Cohen, Herbert Boyer, Kan Yuet-wai and Richard Doll (2004) Michael Berridge (2005) Xiaodong Wang (2006) Robert Lefkowitz (2007) Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and Shinya Yamanaka (2008) Douglas Coleman and Jeffrey Friedman (2009) David Julius (2010) Jules Hoffmann, Ruslan Medzhitov and Bruce Beutler (2011) Franz-Ulrich Hartl and Arthur Horwich (2012) Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young (2013) Kazutoshi Mori and Peter Walter (2014) Bonnie Bassler and Everett Peter Greenberg (2015)

Mathematical science	Shiing-Shen Chern (2004) Andrew Wiles (2005) David Mumford and Wu Wenjun (2006) Robert Langlands and Richard Taylor (2007) Vladimir Arnold and Ludvig Faddeev (2008) Simon Donaldson and Clifford Taubes (2009) Jean Bourgain (2010) Demetrios Christodoulou and Richard Hamilton (2011) Maxim Kontsevich (2012) David Donoho (2013) George Lusztig (2014) Gerd Faltings and Henryk Iwaniec (2015)

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 8682251 LCCN: n80054247 NDL: 01079439 CiNii: DA1370161X

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