title: Masanori Baba
text: # Masanori Baba
  
  Masanori Baba (馬場 昌範, Baba Masanori) is a Japanese professor of microbiology who works at the Kagoshima University in Kagoshima, Japan. On May 20, 2013, he was awarded the Gertrude B. Elion Memorial Award by the International Society for Antiviral Research for his research into anti-AIDS $drugs.^{:11}$
  
  