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| Tasuku Honjo | |
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.jpg) Tasuku Honjo in 2018 | |
| Born | January 27, 1942 Kyoto, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Fields | Molecular Immunology |
| Institutions | Kyoto University |
| Alma mater | Kyoto University |
| Doctoral advisor | Yasutomi Nishizuka Osamu Hayaishi |
| Known for | Class switch recombination IL-4, IL-5, AID Cancer immunotherapy PD-1 |
| Notable 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) |
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]
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]
References
- ↑ Ishida, Y.; Agata, Y.; Shibahara, K.; Honjo, T. (1992). "Induced expression of PD-1, a novel member of the immunoglobulin gene superfamily, upon programmed cell death.". The EMBO Journal (Wiley) 11 (11): 3887–3895. . . . . https://archive.org/details/sim_embo-journal_1992-11_11_11/page/3887.
- ↑ Kumanogoh, Atsushi; Ogata, Masato (2010-03-25). "The study of cytokines by Japanese researchers: a historical perspective". International Immunology 22 (5): 341–345. . . . https://academic.oup.com/intimm/article/22/5/341/731160. Retrieved 2018-10-01.
- ↑ Robert Koch Foundation confers award on Professors Honjo and Wimmer
- ↑ Hannah, Devlin. "James P Allison and Tasuku Honjo win Nobel prize for medicine". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/oct/01/james-p-allison-and-tasuku-honjo-win-nobel-prize-for-medicine.
