Assistant to Katsusaburo Yamagiwa
Koichi Ichikawa
Department of Pathology, Imperial University of Tokyo
Assistant of Katsusaburo Yamagiwa who co-authored the 1915 papers on the artificial production of tumours by coal-tar painting of rabbit ears.
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.