Tasuku Honjo

Tasuku Honjo
Tasuku Honjo

Tasuku Honjo is a Japanese physician-scientist and immunologist. He shared 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.

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Date of Birth
January 27th, 1942
Age
84
Birth Place
Japan, Kyoto Prefecture
Star Sign
Aquarius
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