Profiles in Science - April 29, 2016
Nobel Laureate Medicine 2015: Satoshi Ōmura
Japanese Professor Satoshi Ōmura is widely recognized for his discovery, development, biosynthesis and manipulation of useful chemicals derived from naturally-occurring microorganisms. It is also for this valuable work – described by him as “a splendid gift from earth” – that he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine about a month ago. When […]