Overview
Satoshi Omura is a microbiology specialist with an H-index of 87 at Kitasato University (Member). Has been published in Nature Biotechnology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature. Based in Unknown, Unknown, Global.
Biography
Satoshi Ōmura is a Japanese biochemist. He is known for the discovery and development of hundreds of pharmaceuticals originally occurring in microorganisms. In 2015 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with William C. Campbell for their role in the discovery of the world's first endectocide, ivermectin, 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.
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CellNatureJ Antibiot (Tokyo)Trends Parasitol
Key Publications
An AsCas12f-based compact genome-editing tool derived by deep mutational scanning and structural analysis.
Cryo-EM structure of the transposon-associated TnpB enzyme.
Biosynthesis of sespendole.
Ivermectin: panacea for resource-poor communities?
Structural basis for pegRNA-guided reverse transcription by a prime editor.
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Medical Specialties
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