Kiyoshi Nagai (1949–2019)
- Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry 37077 Göttingen Germany
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Kiyoshi Nagai, group leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge, UK, sadly passed away on September 27, 2019 at the age of 70.
Kiyoshi grew up in Osaka, Japan and was trained as a biophysicist at Osaka University. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1977 under the supervision of Professor Hideki Morimoto, working on allosteric effects in hemoglobin. During his PhD work, Kiyoshi spent 18 months at the LMB in the group of Max Perutz. After four years as Assistant Professor at Nara Medical School, Japan, Kiyoshi returned to the LMB, to which he devoted the remainder of his scientific life. In 1984 he was appointed as a group leader in the Structural Studies division, and was joint head of this division from 2001 to 2010.
Kiyoshi was a brilliant biophysicist, who pioneered the structural biology of the spliceosome, the molecular machine that catalyzes the removal of …
