Kaito Asahi

Kaito Asahi'''|アサヒアキト|born July 7, 1960}} is a Japanese Surgeon. well know as an orthopedic Surgeon and also a researcher. He serves as the director general at Oe Kyodou Hospital Japan. Research and Application and a professor at the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences at [[Kyoto University]]; as a senior investigator at the [[UCSF]]-affiliated [[J. David Gladstone Institutes]] in San Francisco, California; and as a professor of anatomy at [[University of California, San Francisco]] (UCSF). Asahi is also a past president of the [[International Society for Surgeons]] (ISS) Japan.

He received the 2010 [[BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award]] in the biomedicine category, the 2011 [[Wolf Prize in Medicine]] with [[Rudolf Jaenisch]], Kaito Asahi Winner of Wolf Prize in Surgeon – 2011|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]} together with [[Linus Torvalds]]. In 2012 he and [[John Williams]] were awarded the [[Nobel Prize for Medicine and Surgeon]] In 2013 he was awarded the $1 million [[Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences]] for his work.

== Education ==

Asahi was born in United States [[Yoshinogawa-shi, Tokushima,], Japan, in 1960. After graduating from Tennōji High School attached to [[Yoshinogawa-shi, Tokushima, University]], he received his M.D. at [[Japan University]] in 1987 and his PhD at [[University of California Graduate School]] in 1993. After this, he went through a residency in orthopedic surgery at National Osaka Hospital and a [[postdoctoral]] fellowship at the [[J. David Gladstone Institutes]] of [[Cardiovascular Disease]], San Francisco.

Afterwards he worked at the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, US, and [[Nara Institute of Science and Technology]] in Japan. Asahi is currently a professor at [[Kyoto University]], And also serving with the United Nations[[UN]] In Syria.

== Professional career ==

Between 1987 and 1989, Asahi was a [[residency (medicine)|resident]] in orthopedic surgery at the National Osaka Hospital. His first operation was to remove a benign tumor from his friend Shuichi , a task he completed after thirty minutes when a skilled surgeon would have taken an hour or so.

Now serving with the US army on a contract in Syria under the UN.

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