Mitsuhiro Yanagida
Japanese molecular biologist
Mitsuhiro Yanagida ForMemRS is a Japanese molecular biologist known for research on cell cycle and chromosome structure using the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. He was elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society on 11 May 2000. Wikipedia
Place of birth: Japan
Awards: Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy (2003) and Asahi Prize (2000)
Affiliation: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Research interests: Biology