Tasuku Honjo
Tasuku Honjo (本庶 佑, Honjo Tasuku, born January 27, 1942) is a Japanese immunologist. He is best known for his work of finding and naming the Programmed Cell Death Protein 1 (PD-1).[1] He is also known for his discovery of cytokines: IL-4 and IL-5,[2] as well as the discovery of Activation-induced Cytidine Deaminase (AID).[3]
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本庶 佑 | |
| File:Tasuku Honjo EM1B5489 (31268678867).jpg Tasuku Honjo in 2018 | |
| Born | January 27, 1942
(aged 83) |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Alma mater | Kyoto University |
| Known for | Class switch recombination IL-4, IL-5, AID Cancer immunotherapy PD-1 |
| Awards | Imperial Prize (1996) Koch Prize (2012) Order of Culture (2013) Tang Prize (2014) Kyoto Prize (2016) Alpert Prize (2017) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2018) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Molecular Immunology |
| Institutions | Kyoto University |
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He was elected as a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences in 2001. He is a member of German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina (2003), and also as a member of the Japan Academy (2005).
In 2018, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with James P. Allison.[4]
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At Nobel press conference in Stockholm, December 2018
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Cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation (CTLA4, PD1)
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Shun'ichi Iwasaki, Ken Takakura, Seikaku Takagi, Susumu Nakanishi and Honjo received the Order of Culture from Emperor Akihito on November 3, 2013. After that they posed for photo with Shinzō Abe at the East Garden of the Imperial Palace.
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With Masuo Aizawa on August 26, 2010
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Ribbon bar: Order of Culture (Japan)
References
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- ↑ "Robert Koch Foundation confers award on Professors Honjo and Wimmer". Archived from the original on 2021-05-21. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
- ↑ Hannah, Devlin (October 2018). "James P Allison and Tasuku Honjo win Nobel prize for medicine". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 October 2018.