Research:
Senior Research Scientist
Spokesperson
Tahitian Noni International
Country of Origin
Japan
Education and Professional Experience
Dr. Hirazumi-Kim grew up in California and Japan as the youngest child in an Air Force family. She first became interested in Noni when, in 1989, she gave some juice to her dog Brownie, who was very sick.
In 1990, Dr. Hirazumi earned her bachelors degree with high honors in chemistry from the University of Hawaii. She eventually became interested in pharmacology. She worked with Dr. Furusawa at Leahi Hospital, studying the mechanism by which the Noni fruit appeared to be working in animals. She earned a Ph.D. in Pharmacology at the University of Hawaii, 1997. Her research for her Ph.D. dissertation demonstrated the anti-tumor activity of Noni fruit juice.
Publications
Hirazumi A, et al. “An immunomodulatory polysaccharide-rich substance from the fruit juice of morinda citrifolia (noni) with antitumour activity.” Phytother Res. 1999 Aug; 13(5):380-7.
Hirazumi A, et al. “Immunomodulation contributes to the anticancer activity of morinda citrifolia (noni) fruit juice.” Proc West Pharmacol Soc. 1996; 39:7-9.
Hirazumi A, et al. “Anticancer activity of Morinda citrifolia (noni) on intraperitoneally implanted Lewis lung carcinoma in syngeneic mice.” Proc West Pharmacol Soc. 1994; 37:145-6.
Location/ Hometown
Hawaii