Awards & Winners

Yasutomi Nishizuka

Date of Birth 12-July-1932
Place of Birth Ashiya
(Japan, Hyōgo Prefecture, Kansai region)
Nationality Japan
Yasutomi Nishizuka was a Japanese biochemist who discovered protein kinase C and made important contribution to the understanding of molecular mechanism of signal transduction across the cell membrane.

Awards by Yasutomi Nishizuka

Check all the awards nominated and won by Yasutomi Nishizuka.

1995


Wolf Prize in Medicine
(For their discoveries concerning cellular transmembrane signalling involving phospholipids and calcium.)

1989


Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
(For his profound contributions to the understanding of signal transduction in cells, and for his discovery that carcinogens trigger cell growth by activating protein kinase C.)

1988


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(For his work in establishing the roles of inositol trisphosphate, diacylglycerol, calcium and protein kinase C during signal transduction and in growth and differentiation.)