Noboru Mizushima

Professor, Graduate School of Medicine at The University of Tokyo

Areas of expertise

- Autophagy mechanism
- Methods for monitoring autophagy
- Autophagy in mammals

Major works

LC3, a mammalian homologue of yeast Apg8p, is localized in autophagosome membranes after processing Author(s): KABEYA, Y; MIZUSHIMA, N; UERO, T; et al. Source: EMBO JOURNAL Volume: 19 Issue: 21 Pages: 5720-5728 Published: NOV 1 2000, Times Cited: 3812
Autophagy fights disease through cellular self-digestion Author(s): MIZUSHIMA, N; LEVINE, B; CUERVO, AM; et al. Source: NATURE Volume: 451 Issue: 7182 Pages: 1069-1075 Published: 2008,
Times Cited: 3204

About me

Noboru is a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Tokyo. He received his Ph.D. in 1996 in Graduate School of Medicine at Tokyo Medical and Dental University. He started works on autophagy in yeast in Dr. Yoshinori Ohsumi’s laboratory and is now working on the physiological role and molecular mechanisms of autophagy in mammals and other model organisms.