Hidesaburo Hanafusa

Hidesaburo Hanafusa
花房 秀三郎
Hidesaburo Hanafusa
Born(1929-12-01)December 1, 1929
DiedMarch 15, 2009(2009-03-15) (aged 79)
NationalityJapanese
Alma materOsaka University
Known forDiscovery of oncogenes
SpouseTeruko
Children1 (Kei Hanafusa)
AwardsLasker Award (1982)
Order of Culture (1995)
Scientific career
FieldsOncology
Virology
InstitutionsRockefeller University
Osaka Bioscience Institute
Doctoral students

Hidesaburo Hanafusa (花房 秀三郎, Hanafusa Hidesaburō, December 1, 1929 – March 15, 2009) was a Japanese virologist. He shared the 1982 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research with Harold E. Varmus and J. Michael Bishop for demonstrating how RNA tumor viruses cause cancer, and elucidating their role in combining, rescuing and maintaining oncogenes in the viral genome.[1]

  1. ^ "1982 Winners, Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award". Archived from the original on 2015-09-15. Retrieved 2014-02-01.