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Honorary Professor Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2016.
"Elucidating the Molecular Mechanisms and Physiological Significance of Autophagy, a Cellular Adaptive System to Environment"
Professor Ohsumi has achieved world-leading results in his genetic study of autophagy in yeast, a cellular process that degrades proteins in order to adapt to the nutritional environment and other factors.
He has made groundbreaking contributions toward elucidating of the molecular mechanisms of autophagy and its physiological significance.
2016 - |
Professor, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
2014 - |
Honorary Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
2010 - 2016 |
Professor, the Frontier Research Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
2009 - 2010 |
Professor, Advanced Research Organization, Integrated Research Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
2004 - 2009 |
Professor, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies [SOKENDAI] |
1996 - 2009 |
Professor, Department of Cell Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology |
1988 - 1996 |
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
1986 - 1988 |
Lecturer, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo |
1977 - 1986 |
Research Associate, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo, with Prof. Yasuhiro Anraku |
1974 - 1977 |
Post Doctoral Fellow, Rockefeller University with Prof. Gerald M. Edelman |
1972 - 1974 |
Research Fellow, Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, The University of Tokyo |
1967 - 1972 |
Graduate Student, Department of Biochemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, with Prof. Kazutomo Imahori |
1963 - 1967 |
Undergraduate Student, Department of Basic Science, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
2016 |
Paul Janssen Award |
2016 |
Wiley Prize |
2016 |
Rosenstiel Award |
2015 |
The Person of Cultural Merit |
2015 |
The Keio Medical Science Prize, Keio University Medical Science Fund |
2015 |
International Prize for Biology, The Japan Society |
2015 |
Canada Gairdner International Award, The Gairdner Foundation |
2013 |
Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates, Thomson Reuters |
2012 |
Kyoto Prize, The Inamori Foundation |
2008 |
Asahi Prize, The Asahi Shimbun |
2007 |
Science Award of the Botanical Society of Japan |
2006 |
Japan Academy Prize, The Japan Academy |
2005 |
Fujiwara Award, The Fujiwara Foundation of Science |
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Learn more about Honorary Professor Yoshinori Ohsumi and his prize-winning research into the mechanisms of autophagy
Special webpage for 2016 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
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