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Tasuku Honjo (本庶 佑, Honjo Tasuku, born January 27, 1942) is a Japanese physician-scientist and immunologist. He won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and is best known for his identification of programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1).
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May 9, 2024 · Tasuku Honjo, Japanese immunologist who contributed to the discovery of mechanisms and proteins critical to the regulation of immune responses and whose work led to the development of novel immunotherapies against cancer. Honjo received a share of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
- Kara Rogers
Oct 1, 2018 · Tasuku Honjo and James Allison share the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering how to unleash the immune system to attack cancer cells. They studied different proteins that act as brakes on T cells, leading to the development of drugs that have extended survival in some patients.
- Heidi Ledford, Holly Else, Matthew Warren
- 2018
Tasuku Honjo: For scientific career I think I made two major contributions. One is I found the molecular mechanism for the antibody diversity, namely antigen induced antibody diversity class switch recombination and somatic mutation and this PD-1 break discovery and its application to cancer immunotherapy.
Telephone interview with Tasuku Honjo following the announcement of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on 1 October 2018. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Chief Scientific Officer of Nobel Media.
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Learn about the life and achievements of Tasuku Honjo, who discovered PD-1 and revolutionized cancer immunotherapy. He is a professor at Kyoto University and a former president of Shizuoka University and FBRI.
