RARE "Sickle Cell" Makio Murayama Hand Signed 3X5 Card For Sale

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RARE "Sickle Cell" Makio Murayama Hand Signed 3X5 Card:
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Up for sale a RARE! "Sickle Cell" Makio Murayama Hand Signed 3X5 Card.

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Biochemist best known for his work on sickle cell anemia. Makio

Murayama (1912–2012) was born in San Francisco, but was sent to live with

relatives at age age four upon the death of his father. He was raised in Japan

for the next ten years, returning to San Francisco when he was fourteen. After

graduating from Lowell High School in 1933, he went on to the University of

California where he graduated with bachelor's (1938) and master's (1940)

degrees in biochemistry and physics. With the outbreak of World War II and the

subsequent mass forced removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast, he

was called to Chicago to work as a physicist on what would become the Manhattan

Project, while his family was sent to an American concentration camp. But he

was turned away because of his Japanese ancestry. He eventually found a

position as a blood chemist at the Children's Hospital of Michigan and took

similar positions at the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan

and the Children's Pediatric Service at Bellevue Hospital in New York over the

next five years. He went on to finish his Ph.D. in immunochemistry in 1953. He

subsequently did postdoctoral work at the California Institute of Technology

working the Linus Pauling (1954–56) and at the University of Pennsylvania

(1956–58). In October of 1958, he joined the staff of the National Institutes

of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, where he would work for the rest of his

career. He engaged in landmark research on sickle cell anemia, which had

engaged his interest in Michigan where had worked with child patients stricken

with the disease. He famously built a three-foot tall model of the hemoglobin

molecule over a six-year period in his home basement, using some 70,000 screws

to represent atoms, which helped him gain a clearer understanding of the

disease and led to groundbreaking research on the disease and a new treatment

for it. He gained acclaim and fame for his work, receiving the 1969 Association

for Sickle Cell Anemia award and the 1972 Martin Luther King, Jr. medical

achievement award. He continued to work at NIH into the 1980s. He died in

Michigan on January 8, 2012. 

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