The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2018
Awarded on: 2018-10-01
"for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation"
Affiliations:
- Kyoto University – Kyoto, Japan
Tasuku Honjo
Born: 1942-01-27 in Kyoto, Japan
Gender: male
Field: Japanese immunologist and Nobel laureate (born 1942)
Biography
Tasuku Honjo 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.