Satoshi Ōmura
; born 12 July 1935}} is a Japanese biochemist. He is known for the discovery and development of hundreds of pharmaceuticals originally occurring in microorganisms. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with William C. Campbell for their role in the discovery of avermectins and ivermectin, the world's first endectocide and a safe and highly effective microfilaricide. It is believed that the large molecular size of ivermectin prevents it from crossing the blood/aqueous humour barrier, and renders the drug an important treatment of helminthically-derived blindness. Provided by Wikipedia-
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4by Shohei Sakuda, Diyan Febri Prabowo, Keiko Takagi, Kazuro Shiomi, Mihoko Mori, Satoshi Ōmura, Hiromichi NagasawaGet full text
Published 2014-03-01
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6by Goh Sennari, Ryo Saito, Tomoyasu Hirose, Masato Iwatsuki, Aki Ishiyama, Rei Hokari, Kazuhiko Otoguro, Satoshi Ōmura, Toshiaki SunazukaGet full text
Published 2017-08-01
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7by Hirotaka Matsuo, Yoshihiko Noguchi, Rei Miyano, Mayuka Higo, Kenichi Nonaka, Toshiaki Sunazuka, Yōko Takahashi, Satoshi Ōmura, Takuji NakashimaGet full text
Published 2020-05-01
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9by Koichi Kitagawa, Katsumi Shigemura, Aya Ishii, Takuji Nakashima, Hirotaka Matsuo, Yoko Takahashi, Satoshi Omura, Jun Nakanishi, Masato FujisawaGet full text
Published 2021-04-01
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10by Hirotaka Matsuo, Rei Hokari, Aki Ishiyama, Masato Iwatsuki, Mayuka Higo, Kenichi Nonaka, Yuriko Nagano, Yōko Takahashi, Satoshi Ōmura, Takuji NakashimaGet full text
Published 2020-10-01
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11by Noriki Kutsumura, Yasuaki Koyama, Tsuyoshi Saitoh, Naoshi Yamamoto, Yasuyuki Nagumo, Yoshiyuki Miyata, Rei Hokari, Aki Ishiyama, Masato Iwatsuki, Kazuhiko Otoguro, Satoshi Ōmura, Hiroshi NagaseGet full text
Published 2020-03-01
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12by Mihoko Mori, Mihoko Mori, Satoshi Tsuge, Wataru Fukasawa, Ghulam Jeelani, Kumiko Nakada-Tsukui, Kenichi Nonaka, Kenichi Nonaka, Atsuko Matsumoto, Atsuko Matsumoto, Satoshi Ōmura, Tomoyoshi Nozaki, Kazuro Shiomi, Kazuro ShiomiGet full text
Published 2018-12-01
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13by Nobuyuki Matoba, Adam S Husk, Brian W Barnett, Michelle M Pickel, Charles J Arntzen, David C Montefiori, Atsushi Takahashi, Kazunobu Tanno, Satoshi Omura, Huyen Cao, Jason P Mooney, Carl V Hanson, Haruo TanakaGet full text
Published 2010-06-01
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14by Yaojun Tong, Mei Liu, Yu Zhang, Xueting Liu, Ren Huang, Fuhang Song, Huanqin Dai, Biao Ren, Nuo Sun, Gang Pei, Jiang Bian, Xin-Ming Jia, Guanghua Huang, Xuyu Zhou, Shaojie Li, Buchang Zhang, Takashi Fukuda, Hiroshi Tomoda, Satoshi Ōmura, Richard D. Cannon, Richard Calderone, Lixin ZhangGet full text
Published 2016-09-01
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