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
Biography
Yoshinori Ohsumi is a Japanese cell biologist specializing in autophagy, the process that cells use to destroy and recycle cellular components. Ohsumi is a professor at Institute of Science Tokyo's Institute of Innovative Research. He received the Kyoto Prize for Basic Sciences in 2012, the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy.