Kazutoshi Mori

Kazutoshi Mori (森 和俊, Mori Kazutoshi, born 1958) is a Japanese molecular biologist known for research on unfolded protein response. He is a professor of Biophysics at the Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University.

Mori was born in 1958 in Kurashiki, Okayama, and graduated from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Kyoto University in 1981. He was appointed as an assistant professor at Gifu Pharmaceutical University in 1985, before becoming a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 1989. He was a researcher at the HSP (Heat Shock Protein) Research Institute in Kyoto from 1993 to 1999, and has been a member of the faculty of Kyoto University since 1999.

• 2005: Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences (with Peter Walter)
• 2009: Canada Gairdner International Award (with Peter Walter)
• 2010: Medal with Purple Ribbon
• 2013: Asahi Prize
• 2014: Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine (with Peter Walter)
• 2014: Lasker Award (with Peter Walter) for discoveries concerning the unfolded protein response — an intracellular quality control system that detects harmful misfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum and signals the nucleus to carry out corrective measures
• 2015: Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates (with Peter Walter)
• 2016: Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy

• Past Winners, Wiley Prize
• Kazutoshi Mori PhD, Recipient of the Canada Gairdner International Award, 2009
• The Asahi Prize
• "Announcement Press Conference". The Shaw Prize. The Shaw Prize Foundation. 2014. Retrieved 4 June 2014. 
• "Current Winners". Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. Lasker Foundation. 2014. Retrieved 16 January 2015.