Biochemist
Satoshi Ōmura
Japanese biochemist whose soil samples yielded a drug that nearly ended river blindness.
Satoshi Ōmura is a Japanese biochemist. He is known for the discovery and development of hundreds of pharmaceuticals originally occurring in microorganisms. In 2015 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Tu Youyou and with William C. Campbell for their role in the discovery of the world's first endectocide, ivermectin, a safe and highly effective microfilaricide. It is believed that the large molecular size of ivermectin prevents it from crossing the blood/aqueous humour barrier, and renders the drug an important treatment of helminthically-derived blindness.
- Born
- 1935-07-12, Kamiyama, JapanA Friday
- At birth
- Sun in Cancer, Moon in Scorpio
- Nationality
- Japan
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1935-07-12, Kamiyama, Japan · time unknown, noon chart
Asia/Tokyothe zone used then
Asia/TokyoThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Cancer | 18°50′ | Direct |
| Moon | Scorpio | 25°54′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Gemini | 28°31′ | Direct |
| Venus | Virgo | 3°43′ | Direct |
| Mars | Libra | 21°04′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Scorpio | 13°25′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Pisces | 9°52′ | Retrograde |
| Uranus | Taurus | 5°08′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Virgo | 12°25′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Cancer | 25°25′ | Direct |
Satoshi Ōmura is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Satoshi Ōmura was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.