Birth Name:

Utako Okamoto

Female

Birth Date:

Mon, Apr 01, 1918

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Age:

106

Zodiac Sign:

Aries

Astrology Data:

Sun

10°

Ari

35'

About Utako Okamoto

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.

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Utako Okamoto: Sun 10 Aries, Moon 0 Sagittarius, Mercury 27 Aries, Venus 26 Aquarius, Mars 17 Virgo, Jupiter 7 Gemini, Saturn 7 Leo, Uranus 26 Aquarius, Neptune 4 Leo, Pluto 3 Cancer, Sun Sextile Jupiter, Sun Trine Saturn, Sun Semi Square Venus, Sun Semi Square Uranus, Mercury Sextile Venus, Mercury Sextile Uranus, Venus Conjunct Uranus, Mars Semi Square Neptune, Jupiter Sextile Saturn, Jupiter Sextile Neptune, Saturn Conjunct Neptune, Neptune Semi Sextile Pluto

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