Tasuku Honjo
Japanese immunologist and Nobel laureate (born 1942)
Biography
Tasuku Honjo (本庶 佑, Honjo Tasuku; born January 27, 1942) is a Japanese physician-scientist and immunologist. He won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and is best known for his identification of programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1). He is also known for his molecular identification of cytokines IL-4 and IL-5, as well as the discovery of activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) that is essential for class switch recombination and somatic hypermutation.
He was elected as an international member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States in 2001, a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2003, and as a member of the Japan Academy in 2005. In 2018, he was awarded a Nobel Prize with James P. Allison. He and Allison together had won the 2014 Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science for the same achievement.
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Career highlights
Employers / organisations
- University of Tokyo
- Kyoto University
- University of Osaka
- Hirosaki University
Awards & honours (13)
- Tang Prize
- Asahi Prize
- Imperial Prize of Japan Academy
- Person of Cultural Merit
- Robert Koch Prize
- Order of Culture
- William B. Coley Award
- Keio Medical Science Prize
- Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences
- Clarivate Citation Laureates
- Warren Alpert Foundation Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- honorary doctor of the Aix-Marseille University
Quick answers about Tasuku Honjo
- How old is Tasuku Honjo?
- Tasuku Honjo is 84 years old (born January 27, 1942).
- When is Tasuku Honjo's birthday?
- Tasuku Honjo was born on January 27, 1942.
- Where was Tasuku Honjo born?
- Tasuku Honjo was born in Kyoto.
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- Tasuku Honjo's zodiac sign is Aquarius.
- What is Tasuku Honjo's nationality?
- Tasuku Honjo is a citizen of Japan.
- What does Tasuku Honjo do?
- Tasuku Honjo is known as immunologist, biochemist, university teacher, physician.
