Instituto hideyo noguchi africa

The awarding ceremony of the first Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize was held in May 2008..

Hideyo Noguchi African Prize Promoting Medical Research and Medical Service to Fight Infectious Diseases in the Africa

Joseph Okeibunor
WHO Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Congo

Dr.

Hideyo Noguchi - I shall not return to my native home if I do not achieve my objective

Hideyo Noguchi (1876-1928) was a prominent Japanese bacteriologist in the early twentieth century.

The Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize honors men and women "with outstanding achievements in the fields of medical research and medical services to combat.

The Government of Japan established the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize in July 2006 in memory of Dr. Hideyo Noguchi whose contribution to medical advancement and.

The awarding ceremony of the first Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize was held in May 2008.

This is the official site of the 4th Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize.

The Prize aims to honour individuals with outstanding achievements in the fields of medical research and medical services to combat infectious and other.

In spite of a physical handicap, burn on his left hand during his early childhood, he managed to obtain, through extraordinarily hard work, a license to practice medicine in Japan. He moved to the United States in 1900 to work with Prof.

Simon Flexner at the University of Pennsylvania and in 1904 joined the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University). He made important studies of snake venoms, of smallpox and yellow-fever vaccines, and of the laboratory diagnosis of trachoma.

One of his most important achievements of this period was the successful cultivation of pure Syphili