National Dec 18, 2015

New York archive sheds new light on iconic Japanese disease researcher Hideyo Noguchi

by Toyohiro Horikoshi

In a two-story stone mansion in a quiet neighborhood of the Hudson River Valley, the Rockefeller Archive Center holds a little-known trove of historical documents related to Japanese national figure Hideyo Noguchi (1876-1928), the Nobel-nominated bacteriologist whose portrait is on the thousand-yen bill. The seven ...

National / Politics Jun 2, 2013

Belgian, Ugandan win Noguchi prize

by Tomohiro Osaki

Two doctors from Belgium and Uganda were awarded the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize on Saturday at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development for their great strides in helping the world combat deadly infectious diseases. Peter Piot, 64, the Belgian director of the London School ...