1882 |
June 1st |
Toyo Sasaki founds Kyoundo Hospital here in Kanda Surugadai, Tokyo. |
1886 |
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Masakichi Sasaki (the second Director of the Hospital) takes office as the Professor of Tokyo Imperial University Medical College (the first Japanese professor). |
1894 |
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Masakichi Sasaki builds a laboratory on his property and starts research on tuberculosis (the precursor of the later Sasaki Institute). |
1896 |
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Masakichi Sasaki assumes office as Director of Kyoundo Hospital and founds a tuberculosis sanitarium in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa. |
1903 |
Jan |
Taking over from Masakichi and remodeling of the laboratory, Takaoki Sasaki (the third director of the Hospital) got engaged in research. |
1913 |
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Takaoki Sasaki takes office as Professor of Kyoto Imperial University College of Medical (Internal Medicine). |
1915 |
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Takaoki Sasaki assumes office as Director of Kyoundo Hospital and the Branch Hospital. |
1923 |
Sep |
Both the Hospital and Institute are burn down in the Great Kanto Earthquake. |
1924 |
May |
The institute resumes research in a temporary building. |
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ditto |
Takaoki Sasaki is awarded the Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy for “Studies on Bacterial Degradation of Protein and Constituent Amino Acids, and Synthesis of Amino Acids”. |
1929 |
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Reconstruction of the Hospital is completed. |
1935 |
Feb |
Takaoki Sasaki and Tomizo Yoshida report on rat liver carcinogenesis by an azo dye in Virchow’s Archives. |
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ditto |
Takaoki Sasaki takes office as Director of Cancer Institute, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research (concurrently). |
1936 |
June |
Takaoki Sasaki and Tomizo Yoshida receive the Imperial Prize for “Experimental Production of Liver Carcinoma by Feeding with o-Amidoazotoluene“. |
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ditto |
Takaoki Sasaki is recommended as a Member of the German Academy. |
1938 |
May |
The full-scale construction of the Institute is completed (at Surugadai 2-2). |
1939 |
Jan |
The establishment of the foundation ‘Sasaki Institute’ is approved. |
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ditto |
Takaoki Sasaki becomes the first President and Director.
Takaoki Sasaki is recommended as a Member of the Imperial Academy. |
1940 |
Nov |
Takaoki Sasaki is awarded the Order of Culture. |
1941 |
Dec |
Takaoki Sasaki donates Kyoundo Hospital to the foundation ‘Sasaki Institute’. |
1942 |
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Takaoki Sasaki donates Hiratsuka Branch Hospital to the foundation ‘Sasaki Institute’ |
1950 |
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The institute initiates the study of in-house established ascites hepatoma. |
1951 |
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Takaoki Sasaki is recommended as Person of Culture Merits. (the first person) |
1953 |
Apr |
Tomizo Yoshida is inaugurated as the second Director of the Institute. |
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Nov |
Tomizo Yoshida is awarded the Imperial Prize again for “Pathological Studies on Yoshida Sarcoma”. |
1954 |
Sep |
The Institute becomes a designated laboratory of the Japan Scholarship Foundation Law. |
1959 |
Nov |
Tomizo Yoshida receives the Order of Culture. |
1966 |
Oct |
The 9th International Cancer Congress is held in Tokyo, with Takaoki Sasaki as the honorary President and Tomizo Yoshida (Director of the Institute of that time) as the President.
Hirooki Sasaki becomes the second President of the Foundation. |
1968 |
Jan |
The institute made an extension to the existing building. |
1974 |
Apr |
Hirooki Sasaki becomes the third Director of the institute. |
1988 |
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The new hospital building is completed. |
1990 |
June |
The chronicle ‘50 Year History of the Sasaki Institute’ is issued. |
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Sep |
The Institute building is completed. New research begins with three divisions (Departments of Pathology, Biochemistry and Cytogenetics) established. |
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ditto |
Motomichi Sasaki becomes the fourth Director. |
1993 |
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Shonan Medical Center opens. |
1995 |
Oct |
Yoshiaki Hashimoto is inaugurated as the fifth Director. |
1997 |
Sep |
Yoshiaki Hashimoto wins the Tomizo Yoshida Prize. |
2001 |
Apr |
Yuji Kurokawa becomes the third President of the Foundation and also the sixth Director of the Institute, adopting the official name of the Sasaki Institute (affiliated to the Sasaki Foundation). |
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Oct |
Akihiko Maekawa is inaugurated as the seventh Director of the Institute. |
2006 |
Apr |
Yuji Kurokawa is appointed the eighth Director of the Institute (concurrent President of the Foundation). |
ditto |
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Six research departments specialized for clinical research are implemented with respective chiefs and senior researchers appointed (all concurrently working at the Kyoundo Hospital or Shonan Medical Examination Center). |
2010 |
Apr |
Takao Sekiya assumes the director position (ninth), newly establishing the Department of Cancer Genetics as the seventh division. |
2012 |
Apr |
The Sasaki Foundation is authorized as a public interest incorporated foundation by the Cabinet Office. |
2014 |
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A call for donations for cancer research is launched. |
2015 |
Dec |
Animal research facilities are reconstructed. |
2017 |
Apr |
The institute is reorganized from 7 clinical research divisions to 5 basic research divisions, with Departments of Cancer Genome Research, Molecular Metabolic Regulation Research and Cancer Cell Research established. |
2018 |
Aug |
The Department of Peptidomics is established. |
2020 |
Jun |
Takashi Sasaki is appointed the tenth Director of the Institute (concurrent President of the Foundation). |
2022 |
May |
Haruhiko Sugimura is appointed the eleventh Director of the Institute. |