1,791About Tasuku Honjo
Doctor Tasuku Honjo was born in Kyoto, Japan on January 27, 1942. He's 82 years old today.
Japanese physician-scientist and immunologist best known for his identification of programmed cell death protein. He and James. P Allison won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their "discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation". In 2001 he was elected as a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences in the US. In 2003 he became a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina and of the Japan Academy in 2005.
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Tasuku Honjo before becoming famous
Tasuku Honjo was born in the Zodiac sign Aquarius (The Water-Bearer), and 1942 is also the year of Horse (馬) in the Chinese Zodiac.
He completed his M.D. degree in 1966 from the Faculty of Medicine at Kyoto University. In 1975 he received his Ph.D. degree in Medical Chemistry from the same institution. In 1971 he relocated to the United States where he worked at the US National Institutes of Health. He returned to Japan to work as a professor at universities in Kyoto, Tokyo and Osaka.
Achievement of Tasuku Honjo
He and James P. Allison won the 2014 Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science. During the Covid-19 Pandemic of 2020 a false rumor was spread that he believed the virus had been "manufactured" by a lab in China. Other notable awards include the Imperial Prize, the Koch Prize, the Order of Culture, the Kyoto Prize and the Alpert Prize.
Tasuku Honjo's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship
His family ancestry traces back to a priest from a temple called Honjo-san Sensho-ji. His father worked as a surgeon. He has a distinct memory of being carried on the back of his mother during a bombing raid of Toyama City in 1945. His wife is Shigeko and he has two children, a daughter, Yasuko and a son, Hajime.
Tasuku Honjo Collabed with
In 2013 he and fellow scientists posed for a photo with World Leader World Leader Shinzo Abe at the East Garden of the Imperial Palace.
Tasuku Honjo Income & Net worth
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Latest information about Tasuku Honjo updated on March 25 2023.
