Tasuke Honjo

Honjo Tasuku (Japanese: Honjo Yu/Honjo Tasuku, Romanized: Honjo Tasuku, January 27, 1942 -) is a Japanese immunologist, a foreign academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, and a member of the Japanese Academy of Sciences. Currently, he is a special professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Kyoto University. Cultural Medal Commendation. Cultural meritorious person. Professor Honjo is world-famous for his research on PD-1 and activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID). He has won important honors such as the first Tang Prize in Biotechnology and Medicine, the Kyoto Prize, and the Warren Abbott Prize. On October 1, 2018, Tasuku Honjo and James Allison won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.