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Hidesaburō Hanafusa

Japanese virologist (1929-2009)

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Lived 1929–2009, aged 80Japan

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1929–2009
Aged 80
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Updated 2026-07-21

Hidesaburo Hanafusa was a Japanese virologist. He shared the 1982 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research with Harold E. Varmus and J. Michael Bishop for demonstrating how RNA tumor viruses cause cancer, and elucidating their role in combining, rescuing and maintaining oncogenes in the viral genome.

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花房秀三郎
wikipedia · zh.wikipedia.org
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wikipedia · ca.wikipedia.org
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wikipedia · de.wikipedia.org
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