The announcement of this year's Nobel Prize will begin on October 4, but the American academic information service company has been awarded by Professor Tadamitsu Kishimoto of Osaka University and Professor Toshio Hirano as researchers who are expected to receive the award. In addition, 16 people including 3 Japanese professors Mitsuo Sawamoto of Chubu University were announced.
The American academic information service company "Claribate Analytics" analyzes about 52 million research papers, conducts high-profile research, and 16 people from 6 countries around the world are considered to be the most promising researchers to receive the Nobel Prize. Was announced.
Among them, among Japanese, Tadamitsu Kishimoto, a specially appointed professor at the Center for Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, and Tadamitsu Kishimoto, who is also an honorary professor at Osaka University, are currently considered to be the most promising researchers to receive the Nobel Medical and Physiology Award. Toshio Hirano, the chairman of the National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, was selected.
Mr. Kishimoto and Mr. Hirano discovered a protein called "interleukin 6" that is involved in the body's immunity, and based on this research, a therapeutic drug for rheumatoid arthritis is being developed.
In addition, Mitsuo Sawamoto, a professor emeritus at Kyoto University and a professor at the Center for Advanced Research, Chubu University, was selected as a promising researcher to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Mr. Sawamoto was praised for establishing a method called "precision radical polymerization" that connects multiple molecules so that they have the desired structure and function.
To date, 59 of the researchers selected by Clarivate Analytics have won the Nobel Prize.
The announcement of this year's Nobel Prize will begin on October 4th.