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Tasuku Honjo

Japanese professor of immunology and genomic medicine (1942–)

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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.

Quick facts

Born
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Place of birth
Kyoto wd
Citizenship
Japan wd
Occupation
immunologist, biochemist, university teacher, physician wd
Education
Kyoto University, Yamaguchi Prefectural Ube High School wd
Social media
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Awards wd

  • Tang Prize (2014)
  • Asahi Prize (1981)
  • Imperial Prize of Japan Academy (1996)
  • Person of Cultural Merit (2000)
  • Robert Koch Prize (2012)
  • Order of Culture (2013)
  • William B. Coley Award (2014)
  • Keio Medical Science Prize (2016)
  • Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences (2016)
  • Clarivate Citation Laureates (2016)
  • Warren Alpert Foundation Prize (2017)
  • Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2018)
  • honorary doctor of the Aix-Marseille University (2021)

About

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.

Questions

When was Tasuku Honjo born?
Tasuku Honjo was born on 27 January 1942 in Kyoto.
Where did Tasuku Honjo study?
Tasuku Honjo was educated at Kyoto University, Yamaguchi Prefectural Ube High School.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia (English): Tasuku Honjo · CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Wikidata item Q2395341 · CC0 1.0
  3. Image: Tasuku Honjo 201311.jpg by 大臣官房人事課 (CC BY 4.0)

Last updated · facts checked 14 November 2026

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