Awards & Winners

Hidesaburo Hanafusa

Date of Birth 01-December-1929
Place of Birth Hyōgo Prefecture
(Japan, Kansai region)
Nationality Japan
Profession Virologist
Hidesaburo Hanafusa was a Japanese virologist. He shared the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research with Harold E. Varmus and J. Michael Bishop for demonstrating how RNA tumor viruses cause cancer, and elucidating their role in combining, rescuing and maintaining oncogenes in the viral genome.

Awards by Hidesaburo Hanafusa

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1982


Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
(For demonstrating how RNA tumor viruses cause cancer, and elucidating their role in combining, rescuing and maintaining oncogenes in the viral genome.)