Tasuku Honjo

Tasuku Honjo
Tasuku Honjo
本庶佑
	Tasuku Honjo in 2018
Born	January 27, 1942 (age 82); Kyoto, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Alma mater	Kyoto University
Known for	Class switch recombination; IL-4, IL-5, AID; Cancer immunotherapy; PD-1
Awards	Imperial Prize (1996); Koch Prize (2012); Order of Culture (2013); Tang Prize (2014); Kyoto Prize (2016); Alpert Prize (2017); Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2018)
	Scientific career
Fields	Molecular Immunology
Institutions	Kyoto University
Doctoral advisor	Yasutomi Nishizuka; Osamu Hayaishi

Tasuku Honjo (本庶佑, Honjo Tasuku, born January 27, 1942) is a Japanese immunologist. He is best known for his work of finding and naming the Programmed Cell Death Protein 1 (PD-1).^[1]He is also known for his discovery of cytokines: IL-4 and IL-5,^[2] as well as the discovery of Activation-induced Cytidine Deaminase (AID).^[3]

He was elected as a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences in 2001. He is a member of German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina (2003), and also as a member of the Japan Academy (2005).

In 2018, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with James P. Allison.^[4]

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