About Shioko Kimura
Shioko Kimura was a Japanese and American cancer researcher and biochemist.
Shioko Kimura is a Japanese-American biochemist specialized in endocrinology and the physiology and pathogenesis of diseases including thyroid and lung cancers. She headed the endocrinology section in the laboratory of metabolism at the National Cancer Institute until her retirement in 2025.
Early life and education Kimura completed a Ph.D. in chemistry at Hokkaido University. She was a postdoctoral researcher at Queen's University at Kingston and a visiting fellow at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
Career
At the National Cancer Institute (NCI), she started in the laboratory of molecular carcinogenesis. Since 1996, she heads the endocrinology section in the laboratory of metabolism.
Kimura retired on June 30, 2025.
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Who was Shioko Kimura?
Japanese-American biochemist
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Shioko Kimura was a cancer researcher and biochemist.
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Shioko Kimura was Japanese and American.
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