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The University of Tokyo Hongo, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113-0033 Japan... 

Department of Molecular Pharmacokinetics, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan... 

This reports on a process developed at the University of Tokyo to convert waste polyolefin plastic into a mixture of high quality fuels. Details of the process, which uses a carbon catalyst, are given. 

After graduating from Mikunigaoka High School, Osaka, he studied chemistry at the University of Tokyo from 1968 to 1972 and continued research on hydrido complexes and transition metal hydrides to earn the Dr. sc. degree under the supervision of Professor Yukiyoshi Sasaki in 1977. As a postdoctoral fellow, he worked with Professor John D. Corbett at the Ames Laboratory from 1977 to 1979, and with Professor Arndt Simon at Max-Planck-Institut fur Festkorperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany from 1979 to 1981. In... 

Cooperative work with Prof. Nobuo Tanaka (Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo) in 1969 showed the mechanism of action of bleomycin to involve DNA strand-scission. The difficult total synthesis of bleomycin was accomplished (1981) in cooperation with Takita and others, including Hamao s son, Yoji Umezawa. H. Umezawa was very satisfied with the success of this total synthesis, and his sustained enthusiasm for improved bleomycins led to peplomycin (1978 used clinically since 1981) and libro-mycin(1985). 

Stages in H. Umezawa s professional history not already described included the following Professor of the University of Tokyo (1954-1975), directing research in the 6th (1954-1965) and the 12th Department (1965 -1975) of the Institute of Applied Microbiology, and in the Cancer Biology Department of the Institute for Medical Sciences (1972-1975) Professor... 

Department of Chemical System Engineering, The University of Tokyo,... 

The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Frontier Science Department of Chemistry Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa Chiba 277-8561 Japan... 

Adam Webb, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom Hiroyuki Yoneyama Laboratory of Stem Cell Dynamism, Stelic Institute of Regenerative Medicine, 1-9-15 Higashi-Azabu, Minato-city, Tokyo 106-0044 and Department of Molecular Preventive Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-city, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan... 

We are indebted to Drs. N. Tokitoh and H. Suzuki of the University of Tokyo for their valuable assistance in preparing this manuscript for publication. R.W. thanks Tokohashi University of Technology for a Visiting Professorship which made writing this chapter possible. 

Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Culture Collection (IAM). James Cook University Culture Collection, James Cook, Townsville (JCT). 

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