Pathologist
Katsusaburo Yamagiwa
Imperial University of Tokyo
Japanese pathologist who studied Virchow's irritation theory in Berlin, became a professor at the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1894 and founded the journal Gann in 1907. With Koichi Ichikawa he induced skin tumours in rabbit ears with coal tar, reported in 1915.
Milestones
Sources
Fujiki H. Gist of Dr. Katsusaburo Yamagiwa's papers entitled "Experimental study on the pathogenesis of epithelial tumors" (I to VI reports). Cancer Sci. 2014;105(2):143-9.
Sekiya T. The first artificial cancer in the internal organs of experimental animals. Proc Jpn Acad Ser B Phys Biol Sci. 2024;100(10):558-578.