Keiichi Itakura

Keiichi Itakura (February 18, 1942 -- ) is a Professor at City of Hope Medical Center.

Itakura was born in Tokyo, and obtained a PhD in Organic Chemistry there.[1]

In 1975, Itakura joined City of Hope. He was part of a team of scientists including Arthur Riggs who invented recombinant DNA technology. Specifically, Itakura synthesized the gene for somatostatin and inserted it into E. Coli. This was the first demonstration of a foreign gene inserted into E. Coli.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "City of Hope Breakthroughs - Tag Archive - Keiichi Itakura". City of Hope Breakthroughs.
  2. ↑ "Paul Berg, Herbert W. Boyer, and Stanley N. Cohen". chemheritage.org.
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