Tadamitsu Kishimoto | |
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| Born | May 7, 1939 (age 84) |
| Nationality |  Japan |
| Alma mater | Osaka University |
| Awards | Asahi Prize (1988) Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy (1992) Order of Culture (1998) Robert Koch Gold Medal (2003) Crafoord Prize (2009) King Faisal International Prize(2017) Tang Prize (2020) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biology |
Tadamitsu Kishimoto (岸本 忠三, Kishimoto Tadamitsu, born May 7, 1939 in Tondabayashi, 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.