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Tasuku Honjo è un medico giapponese. Docente dal 2005 di Immunologia presso l’Università di Kyoto, con solide esperienze di ricerca negli Stati Uniti presso la Carnegie Institution of Washington e i National Institutes of Health, nel 1992 ha individuato la proteina PD-1, recettore che inibisce il riconoscimento delle cellule ...
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).
- Molecular Immunology
- Japanese
Honjo family in 1955. From left to right Nobuko, Sho-ichi, Ryuko and Tasuku. My first moment of enchantment with the natural sciences took place when I observed the tiny rings around Saturn in a clear sky using a portable telescope in the playground of Kamihara Elementary School in Ube during a summer vacation.
1 ott 2018 · 01 October 2018. Cancer immunologists scoop medicine Nobel prize. James Allison and Tasuku Honjo pioneered treatments that unleash the body’s own immune system to attack cancer cells. By. Heidi...
- Heidi Ledford, Holly Else, Matthew Warren
- 2018
After retiring from his position at the Medical Faculty of Kyoto University in 2004, Prof. Honjo continued his affiliation with Kyoto University as Professor for Immunology and Genomic Medicine through an endowed professorship position, and as Vice Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies.
Tasuku Honjo. Deputy Director-General and Distinguished Professor. View more details. Research Fields. Molecular Immunology. Research Overview. Honjo is well known for his discovery of activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) that is essential for class switch recombination and somatic hypermutation.
2 giorni fa · Tasuku Honjo, Japanese immunologist who contributed to the discovery of mechanisms and proteins critical to the regulation of immune responses and whose work led to the development of novel immunotherapies against cancer. Honjo received a share of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
