The President of the Leopoldina, Professor Jörg Hacker, congratulated Tasuku Honjo on this prestigious award: “With this Nobel Prize, important insights into the fundamental understanding of the immune system are being recognized. These findings have the potential to contribute to improving cancer treatment. We are all the more delighted that an active Leopoldina member is being recognized for his pioneering research with this year's Nobel Prize.”
Tasuku Honjo (born 1942) attended Kyoto University (Japan) to study medicine, where he received his doctorate and habilitated in 1975. From 1979 to 1984, he was professor of genetics at Osaka University (Japan). He has been a professor at Kyoto University since 1984, initially at the Department of Medicinal Chemistry and since 2005 at the Department of Immunology and Genomic Medicine. Tasuku Honjo has been honoured with numerous awards for his research. He received the Robert Koch Prize in 2012 and the Kyoto Prize in 2016. Honjo joined the Leopoldina in 2003 and is a member of the microbiology and immunology section.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is currently endowed with a total of nine million Swedish kronor (equivalent to around 870,000 euros). All Nobel Prizes are traditionally bestowed on the laureates on 10 December, the anniversary of founder Alfred Nobel’s death.
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