Takao Shimizu

Representative Director, Microbial Chemistry Research Foundation (MCRF) and Director
Institute of Microbial Chemistry

Biography

1973	MD, The University of Tokyo
1973-1975	Clinical research fellow, the University of Tokyo Hospital
1975-1979	Research Assistant, Kyoto University School of Medicine
1979-1982	Assistant Professor, Medical Chemistry, Kyoto University School of Medicine
1980	Ph. D., Kyoto University of School of Medicine
1982-1984	Visiting Scientist, Department of Physiological Chemistry, Karolinska Institutet
1984-1991	Associate Professor, Physiological Chemistry and Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
1991-2012	Professor and Chair, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
2003-2007	Vice Dean of Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
2003-2007	Director of Institute for Disease Biology and Integrated Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
2004-2008	Science Advisor, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
2007-2011	Dean of Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
2011-2013	Executive Vice President, The University of Tokyo
2011-2019	Project Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Lipidomics), Faculty of Medicine, the University of Tokyo
2012-present	Project Leader, Department of Lipid Signaling, National Center for Global Health and Medicine
2012-2017	Vice President, Japanese Medical Association
2013-2016	Director-General, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine
2013-2017	Executive Director, National Center for Global Health and Medicine
2017-present	Representative Director, Microbial Chemistry Research Foundation (MCRF)
2022-present	Director, Institute of Microbial Chemistry

Awards

1981	Young Investigator Award from the Japanese Biochemical Society
1998	Honorary member of American Association of Physician
2000	Ernst Schering Prize, Germany
2000	Medical Award of the Japanese Medical Association
2000	Foreign Members of American Association of Physicians (AAP)
2001	Mochida Memorial Foundation for Medical and Pharmaceutical Research, Japan
2003	Medical Award of Takeda Science Foundation, Japan
2004	Prize from Uehara Memorial Foundation, Japan
2009	Japan Academy Prize, Japan
2009	50th Memorial Lecture Award of Journal of Lipid Research, USA
2013	Life-Time Achievement Award by 5th International Conference of PLA2, USA
2013	Outstanding Achievement Award, Eicosanoid Research Foundation, USA
2020	The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon