Setsuro Ebashi

[1] He is famous for the discovery of troponin in 1965, which is integral to muscle contraction,[2] as well as for the contribution of diagnosis of muscular dystrophy.He was Guest Investigator of the Rockefeller Institute in New York City from January to December 1959, where he studied with Fritz Lipmann.[3] He trained many graduate students and postdoctorals who later became leading figures in basic medical sciences in Japan, including Tomoh Masaki who discovered Endothelin in 1988.[4] After retiring from the University of Tokyo and becoming Professor Emeritus, Ebashi was offered a professorship in the National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Okazaki.Shinya Yamanaka, the 2008 Setsuro Ebashi Award winner, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2012.
Tokyo, JapanOkazaki, AichiUniversity of Tokyotroponinmuscular dystrophyImperial PrizeOrder of CultureInternational Prize for BiologyPhysiologyNational Institute for Physiological SciencesRockefeller UniversityForMemRSOkazakiphysiologistcalciummuscle contractionRockefeller InstituteNew York CityFritz LipmannPharmacologyBiophysicsEndothelinAsahi PrizeImperial Prize of the Japan AcademyOrder of the Sacred TreasureRoyal SocietyJapan AcademyShinya YamanakaNobel PrizeBibcode