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Japanese doctor helped two Aussies win Nobel in medicine

Naomi Uemura, director of the National Center for Global Health and Medicine's Kohnodai Hospital in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, poses with an endoscope in this undated photo. Uemura, a specialist in digestive organs, conducted clinical research on a bacterial species living in the stomach that was thought to be linked with stomach and duodenum ulcers. His work is credited with helping a pair of Australian doctors land the Nobel Prize in medicine in 2005. | KYODO

By Tatsuya Tsujimura
Kyodo

Oct 31, 2014

Naomi Uemura, a 63-year-old physician who specializes in digestive organs, is credited with conducting the tenacious clinical research that helped two Australian doctors win the Nobel Prize in medicine in 2005.

Born in Kitakyushu, Uemura graduated from Hiroshima University and then honed his therapeutic skills at a number of hospitals, including one on a small island in the Seto Inland Sea.

After returning from a study program in the United States in 1989, he became chief physician at the department of digestive organs at Kure Kyosai Hospital in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture.

Japanese doctor helped two Aussies win Nobel in medicine

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