Everything about Hiroaki Mitsuya totally explained
Hiroaki Mitsuya (born
1950) is a
Japanese
virologist famous for his role in discovery of the anti-
HIV drug zidovudine (
AZT) as well as other anti-AIDS drugs including
didanosine (ddI) and
zalcitabine (ddC). Mitsuya obtained his M.D. and Ph.D. at
Kumamoto University in Japan. He joined the American
National Cancer Institute in
Bethesda, Maryland, in 1982, working initially on human T cell leukemia virus type 1, before switching his attention to HIV. His identification of AZT as an anti-HIV drug, as well as the anti-HIV properties of
ddI and
ddC, was made in 1985. In December, 2006, he was awarded the first NIH World AIDS Day Award for his work in developing drugs for AIDS. Mitsuya has been chief of the NCI's Experimental Retrovirology Section since 1991.
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