Teruko Ishizaka

Doctor
Teruko Ishizaka
Born (1926-09-28)September 28, 1926
Citizenship Japan
Education Tokyo Women's Medical School
University of Tokyo (PhD)
Known for Discovery of IgE
Spouse(s) Kimishige Ishizaka
Awards Passano Award (1972)
Gairdner Foundation International Award (1973)
Asahi Prize (1973)
Scientific career
Fields Immunology
Institutions California Institute of Technology
Johns Hopkins University

Teruko "Terry" Ishizaka (石坂 照子, Ishizaka Teruko) is a Japanese scientist and immunologist who along with her husband Kimishige Ishizaka discovered the antibody class Immunoglobulin E (IgE) in 1966.[1]

Biography

Ishizaka was born in Japan on September 28, 1926. She received a doctorate in medicine from Tokyo Women's Medical School in 1949 and a PhD from the University of Tokyo in 1955. Working alongside fellow scientist Kimishige Ishizaka whom she married in 1949 she spent eight years at Professor Nakamura’s laboratory where she studied the mechanisms of anaphylaxis. In 1957 the couple joined a laboratory at the California Institute of Technology to study the Immune complex before returning to Japan leaving the Japanese National Institutes of Health to continue their work. By 1962 the Ishizakas were recruited to the Asthma Research Institute and Hospital in Denver where they announced their discovery of the IgE antibody class in 1966.[1] At about the same time, S.G.O Johansson and Hans Bennich made the same discovery in Uppsala, Sweden. They published a joint paper in April 1969.[2]

For their achievements the couple were awarded the Passano Foundation Award in 1972 and the Gairdner Foundation International Award in 1973 and the Borden Award in 1979.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Cohen, Sheldon. "The Ishizakas and the search for reaginic antibodies". The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  2. ↑ Ishizaka,, Teruko; Ishizaka, Kimishige; Johansson, S. Gunnar O.; Bennich, Hans (1969). "Histamine Release from Human Leukocytes by Anti-λE Antibodies". Journal of Immunology. 102 (4): 884–892.
  3. ↑ "Trend-Setting Women Scientists of Biomedical Research in Japan" (PDF). International Journal of Medical Sciences. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
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