Late Prof. Dr. Ananda Prasad "The legend and the father of zinc biology"

Toshiyuki Fukada

doi:10.1016/j.jtemb.2023.127276

Late Prof. Dr. Ananda Prasad "The legend and the father of zinc biology"

J Trace Elem Med Biol. 2023 Jul 26:80:127276. doi: 10.1016/j.jtemb.2023.127276. Online ahead of print.

Author

Toshiyuki Fukada¹

Affiliation

¹ Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, 180 Nishihama-Hoji, Yamashiro, Tokushima 770-8514, Japan.

PMID: 37591110
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtemb.2023.127276

Abstract

Prof. Dr. Ananda Prasad passed away on February 5th, 2022, at 94 years of age (Photo 1). He was the first to identify the human zinc deficiency in the world. I had met him at the 2nd meeting of International Society for Zinc Biology held in Jerusalem in 2009, and then, we got acquainted with each other. Time has flown by so fast that more than one and a half years have passed since we lost him, so I would like to recollect his great achievements and to introduce how he lived for science and his family.