Ishizaka Teruko

Career From 1949 until 1957, she and her husband Kimishige Ishizaka worked at Keizo Nakamura's laboratory where she studied the mechanisms of anaphylaxis. In 1957, the couple joined the laboratory of Dan Campbell at the California Institute of Technology to study the immune complex and in 1959 they returned to Japan to continue their work at the Japanese National Institutes of Health.

By 1970, rumors of a merger with the National Jewish Hospital made the couple move to the Allergy and Immunology Center at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore . Ishizaka was the first female scientist in Japan to receive the Behring Kitasato Prize. Her husband had preceded her in death also at the age of 92 one year prior, on 6 July 2018.