| Authorised form of name | Nagai; Kiyoshi (1949 - 2019) |
| Dates | 1949 - 2019 |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Place of birth | Osaka, Japan, Asia |
| Date of birth | 25/06/1949 |
| Place of death | Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 27/09/2019 |
| Occupation | Biologist |
| Research field | Biophysics |
| Crystallography |
| Proteins |
| RNA |
| Activity | Education:
Osaka University, Japan, BS in Biophysics (1972); Osaka University Postgraduate School, Japan, MS in Biophysics (1974), PhD in Biophysics (1977)
Career:
Member of Scientific Staff, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge (1974-1976); Postdoctoral Fellow, Japanese Society for Peomotion of Science (1977-1978); Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, NAra MEdical COllege (1978-1981); Postdoctoral Fellow, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge (1981-1984); Member of Scientific Staff, MRC Laboratory of molecular Biology, Cambridge (1984-2019)
Memberships:
Fellow of Darwin College, University of Cambridge (1993); European Molecular Biology Organization (2000)
Medals and Awards:
Novartis Medal and Prize of the Biochemical Society, 2000 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 11/05/2000 |
| Age at election | 50 |
| PublishedWorks | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1785-6510 |
| OtherInfo | Kiyoshi Nagai was a structural biologist who studied the complex molecular machine known as the spliceosome. In eukaryotic cells, the protein-coding sequences of most genes are interrupted by noncoding segments called introns. After introns are removed from precursor messenger RNAs (mRNAs), the flanking coding segments — exons — are spliced together to form mature mRNAs by the spliceosome.
If this splicing process fails, diseases can result. Kiyoshi combined X-ray crystallography and electron cryomicroscopy (cryoEM) with biochemical and genetic techniques in an effort to increase our knowledge of this critical process in eukaryotic gene expression.
Professor Kiyoshi Nagai FRS died on 27 September 2019. |
| Source | Sources:
https://royalsociety.org/people/kiyoshi-nagai-11991/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshi_Nagai |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/32147687 |
| Code | NA3081 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/2000/26 | Nagai, Kiyoshi: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |