Yoshinori Ohsumi
Yoshinori Ohsumi (大隅 良典, Ōsumi Yoshinori) (born 9 February 1945) is a Japanese cell biologist. He won the 2016 Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries of how cell autophagy works.[1]
Yoshinori Ohsumi | |
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| File:Nobel Laureates 1042 (30647248184).jpg Ohsumi in 2015 | |
| Born | 9 February 1945
(aged 80) |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Alma mater | University of Tokyo |
| Known for | Autophagy |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2016) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cell biologist |
| Institutions | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| Website | www |
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Autophagy is the process that cells use to break down and recycle cellular components. This allows the orderly recycling of cellular components.[2][3]
Ohsumi is a professor in Institute of Science Tokyo's Frontier Research Center.[4] He got the Kyoto Prize for Basic Science in 2012.[5]
Yoshinori Ohsumi Media
Ohsumi addressed at Gairdner Foundation International Award Ceremony (at the Royal Ontario Museum in October 2015)
with John Dirks, Kenjirō Monji and D. Lorne Tyrrell
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Ohsumi in his Tokyo Tech lab
References
- ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2016". The Nobel Foundation. 3 October 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
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- ↑ Yoshinori Ohsumi's biog in ORCID
- ↑ Biemiller, Lawrence (2012-11-10). "Kyoto Prize Is Awarded to 3 Scholars". The Chronicle of Higher Education Blogs: The Ticker. Retrieved 2016-10-04.