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Hideyo Noguchi African Prize Promoting Medical Research and Medical Service to Fight Infectious Diseases in the Africa
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WHO Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Congo
Dr.
Hideyo Noguchi - I shall not return to my native home if I do not achieve my objective
Hideyo Noguchi (1876-1928) was a prominent Japanese bacteriologist in the early twentieth century. In spite of a physical handicap, burn on his left hand during his early childhood, he managed to obtain, through extraordinarily hard work, a license to practice medicine in Japan.
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He moved to the United States in 1900 to work with Prof. Simon Flexner at the University of Pennsylvania and in 1904 joined the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University). He made important studies of snake venoms, of smallpox and yellow-fever vaccines, and of the laboratory diagnosis of trachoma.
One of his most important achievements of this period was the successful cultivation of pure Syphili