The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2016
Awarded on: 2016-10-03
"for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy"
Affiliations:
- Tokyo Institute of Technology – Tokyo, Japan
Yoshinori Ohsumi
Born: 1945-02-09 in Fukuoka, Japan
Gender: male
Field: Japanese cell biologist (born 1945)
Biography
Yoshinori Ohsumi is a Japanese cell biologist specializing in autophagy, the process that cells use to destroy and recycle cellular components.