Tribute to Yoshiro Shimura (1932–2023)
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Yoshiro Shimura. (Photo courtesy of Mrs. Sachiko Shimura.)
On September 27, 2023, Dr. Yoshiro Shimura died of old age in Kyoto, Japan. He was born and grew up in Yamanashi prefecture, near Tokyo. He entered the Department of Botany at Kyoto University and received an MS degree in plant physiology. He then moved to Rutgers University in New Jersey and obtained his PhD in microbiology and molecular biology under the supervision of Professor Henry J. Vogel (Shimura and Vogel 1966). Following that, Dr. Shimura moved to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Daniel Nathans, where he began studying RNA science, which became his life's work. His first major work was an analysis of the protein synthesis of MS2 RNA phage in vitro and in vivo (Shimura et al. 1967). He also determined the genetic map of the MS2 phage …
