Japan's Omura Shares Nobel Medicine Prize With 2 Others
TOKYO, JAPAN - OCT. 5: Japanese biologist Satoshi Omura and two scientists from Ireland and China won this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning therapies against parasitic diseases, the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute said Monday. Omura, an 80-year-old professor emeritus at Kitasato University in Japan, and his colleague William Campbell, 85, an Ireland-born research fellow emeritus at Drew University in the United States, shared the prize for their discovery of a new drug, Avermectin. Tu Youyou, 84, a Chinese national and chief professor at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, won the prize for her discovery of Artemisinin, a drug to treat malaria. The award-giving body said derivatives of the drug discovered by Omura and Campbell "have radically lowered the incidence of river blindness and lymphatic filariasis, as well as showing efficacy against an expanding number of other parasitic diseases." Omura told Kyodo News that he has just been trying to "somehow bring microorganisms' mighty ability out." "I don't think I did a noble job. I was constantly thinking how I could do just a tiny bit for others," he added. "My job is just receiving the power of microbes, and I have been doing so by studying what microbes were doing," he said at a press conference held later Monday in Tokyo. "I think it is a very happy thing." Omura became the first Japanese scientist to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine since Shinya Yamanaka won it in 2012 for his development of induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells. Omura also became the 23rd Japanese Nobel Prize winner. The three winners will receive award money of 8 million kronor ($960,000) at the award ceremony to be held on Dec. 10 in Stockholm, with Omura and Campbell together receiving half of the amount and Tu the rest.
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