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CURRICULUM VITAESATOSHI ŌMURA, Ph.D.
Distinguished Emeritus Professor
Special Coordinator
Drug Discovery Project from Natural Products
Kitasato Institute for Life Sciences
Kitasato University
9-1, Shirokane 5-chome, Minato-ku
Tokyo 108-8642, Japan
TEL: +81-3-5791-6101
FAX: +81-3-3444-8360
E-mail: omuras@insti.kitasato-u.ac.jp
Website: http://www.satoshi-omura.info

Born: July 12, 1935, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
Nationality: Japan
Educational Degrees:
1958- B.S.
1963- M.S.
1968- Ph.D. Pharmaceutical Sciences
1970- Ph.D. Chemistry

University of Yamanashi
Tokyo University of Science
University of TokyoTokyo University of Science

Career Summary:1963 - 1965
Research Associate, University of Yamanashi
1965 - 1971
Researcher, The Kitasato Institute1968 - 1975
Associate Professor, Kitasato University
1971 - 1973
Visiting Research Professor (Max Tishler’s Laboratory, Departmentof Chemistry, Wesleyan University, USA)1971 - 2001
Chief Researcher, Research Center for Biological Function
1975 - 1984
Professor, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kitasato University
1981 - 1984
Inspector, The Kitasato Institute1984 - 1990
Director and Executive Vice President, The Kitasato Institute1985 - 2003
Director, Kitasato University
1990 - 2008
Director and President, The Kitasato Institute1991 - 2001
Special Visiting Professor of Tokyo University of Science2001 - 2007
Professor, Kitasato Institute for Life Sciences, Kitasato University
2001 - Present
Special Coordinator, Drug Discovery Project from Natural Products
Kitasato Institute for Life Sciences, Kitasato University
2002 - 2007
Professor, Graduate School of Infection Control Sciences,Kitasato University
2005 - 2016
Max Tishler Professor of Chemistry (Wesleyan University, USA)2007 - 2013
Professor Emeritus, Kitasato University
1March 20192007 - 2015
2008 - 20122013 - Present
2015 - Present
2016 - Present

President, Joshibi University of Art & Design
President Emeritus, The Kitasato Institute
Distinguished Emeritus Professor, Kitasato University
Honorary President, Joshibi University of Art & DesignMax Tishler Emeritus Professor of Chemistry (Wesleyan Univ. USA)

Academic Society Membership:
1969
Member American Chemical Society
1969
Member Japanese Biochemical Society
1971
Member New York Academy of Sciences (USA)1975
Member Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (USA)1986
Member of The New York Academy of Sciences (USA)1986
American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (USA) (Honorary Member)
1992
Member of German Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina
1992
Member of American Academy of Microbiology
1998
Chemical Society of Japan (Honorary Member)
1999
Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (USA)2001
Member of Japan Academy
2002
Foreign Associate of Académie des Sciences, Institut de France
2003
Japanese Society for Bacteriology (Distinguished Honorary Member)
2003
Member of Russian Academy of Sciences
2004
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)2005
Society for Actinomycetes, Japan (Honorary Member)
2005
Member of European Academy of Sciences (Belgium)
2005
Foreign Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering
2009
Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry (Honorary Member)
2014
Pharmaceutical Society of Japan (Honorary Member)
2015
Fellow of Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (USA)2016
Japanese Society of Chemotherapy (Distinguished Honorary Member)
2016
Japanese Pharmacological Society (Honorary Member)
2016
Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan (Honorary Member)
Honours and Awards:
1985
Honorary Professor of Chinese Academy of Medical Science (China)
1985
Hoechst-Roussel Award (American Society for Microbiology, USA)1986
The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award
1986
Uehara Memorial Foundation Fellowship (Japan)
1989
Uehara Prize (Uehara Memorial Foundation, Japan)
1990
The Japan Academy Prize (The Japan Academy)
1991
Charles Thom Award (Society for Industrial Microbiology, USA)
1991
Honorary Doctor of Science, Lajos Kossuth University (Hungary)
1992
Medal with Purple Ribbon (National Medal of Japan)
1992
Chevalier de L’Ordre National du Mérite (France)
1994
Honorary Doctor of Science (Wesleyan University, USA)
1994
Honorary Member of the Robert Koch Institute (Germany)
1995
Special Achievement Award (The Society for Actinomycetes, Japan)
1995
The Fujihara Award (The Fujihara Foundation of Science, Japan)
1995
Special Achievement Award (Society for Industrial Microbiology, USA)2

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Honorary Professor of Shenyang Pharmaceutical University (China)
Robert Koch Gold Medal (Robert Koch Foundation, Germany)
Prince Mahidol Award (Thailand)
Medal with Navy Blue Ribbon (National Medal of Japan)
Distinguished Lecturer of Elanco Animal Health (USA)Nakanishi Prize (American Chemical Society-Japan Chemical Society)
Prominent Scientist Award, “The Bocchan Award” (Tokyo University of Science)
William S. Johnson Symposium Lecturer (Stanford University, USA)
Ernest Guenther Award in Chemistry of Natural Products (American Chemical SocietyUSA)
Honorary Professor of Jinan University (China)
Amgen Lectureship Award (Society for Industrial Microbiology, USA)
Hamao Umezawa Memorial Award (International Society of Chemotherapy)
Chevalier de L’Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur (France)
Lifetime Achievement Award for Encouragement of Invention (Japan)
Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic ChemistryOrder of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Star (National Medal of Japan)
Arima Award (International Union of Microbiological Societies)
Person of Cultural Merit (Japan)
Norman R. Farnsworth ASP Research Achievement Award (American Society ofPharmacognosy)
Canada Gairdner Global Health Award (Gairdner Foundation)
The Asahi Prize (Japan)
The Order of Cultural Merit (Japan)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Distinguished Doctorate degree of University of Yamanashi
Special Award for Distinguished Achievement (Japan Society for Bioscience,
Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry)Distinguished Doctorate degree of Tokyo University of Sciences (Japan)
Honorary Doctor of Sciences of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)
Special Honor Award (Society for Actinomycetes, Japan)
Lifetime Achievement Award (Pharmaceutical Society of Japan)
Honorary Doctor of Science of University of St. Andrews, UKPublications:
Authorship of 1,245 scientific papers, delivery of 270 invited and plenary lectures andeditorship of six major texts, including Macrolide Antibiotics: Chemistry, Biology & Practice(Academic Press (1984), 2 edition (2002)) and The Search for Bioactive Compounds fromMicroorganisms (Springer-Verlag (1992)), plus co-authorship of 42 books.
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