Tasuku Honjo

Tasuku Honjo (本庶 佑code: ja is deprecated , 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). He is also known for his discovery of cytokines: IL-4 and IL-5, as well as the discovery of Activation-induced Cytidine Deaminase (AID).

Tasuku Honjo
本庶 佑
File:Tasuku Honjo EM1B5489 (31268678867).jpg Tasuku Honjo in 2018
Born	January 27, 1942 (aged 83) Kyoto, Japan
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

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.

Tasuku Honjo Media

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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)

• 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.

• With Masuo Aizawa on August 26, 2010

• Ribbon bar: Order of Culture (Japan)