1918 - 2016
Utako Okamoto Japanese Doctor
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Details
| Birthday |
1st April, 1918
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| Birthplace |
Tokyo, Japan
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| Died |
21st April, 2016
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| Place of Death |
Kobe, Japan
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| Zodiac Sign |
Aries
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| Nationality |
Japanese
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| Occupation Text |
medical doctor
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| Occupation |
Doctor
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| Year(s) Active |
1945–2014
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Utako Okamoto (岡本歌子, Okamoto Utako; 1 April 1918 – 21 April 2016) was a Japanese medical doctor working as a medical scientist who discovered tranexamic acid in the 1950s in her quest to find a drug that would treat bleeding after childbirth (post-partum haemorrhage). After publishing results in 1962 she became a chair at Kobe Gakuin University, where she worked from 1966 until her retirement in 1990. Okamoto's career was hampered by a very male dominated environment. During her lifetime she was unable to persuade obstetricians at Kobe to trial the antifibrinolytic agent, which had become a drug on the WHO list of essential medicines in 2009. She lived to see the 2010 beginning of the study of tranexamic acid in 20.000 women with post-partum haemorrhage, but died before its completion in 2016 and the publication of tranexamic acids fatality preventing results in 2017, that she had predicted.
