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5 days ago · Dr. James Allison, together with Dr. Tasuku Honjo, received the 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine for demonstrating that boosting the body’s systemic immune system could fight cancer.
Apr 27, 2020 · Dan Evon. Nobel laureate Dr. Tasuku Honjo said that COVID-19 was "man-made" at a lab in Wuhan, China. Snopes is still fighting an “infodemic” of rumors and misinformation surrounding the...
May 4, 2020 · Professor Tasuko Honjo has refuted the alleged quote, describing the claim as “false accusations and misinformation”. His statement, published by Kyoto University on April 27, 2020, is visible...
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Oct 1, 2018 · October 1, 2018 at 2:30 pm. Stopping cancer by removing brakes on the immune system has earned James P. Allison of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and Tasuku Honjo...
Apr 28, 2020 · The April 26 Facebook post claims Japan’s Nobel Prize winning Professor Dr Tasuku Honjo “created a sensation today by saying that the coronavirus is not natural”. The post goes on to claim the professor said: “If it is natural, it wouldn’t have adversely affected the entire world like this.
Apr 28, 2020 · CLAIM: Nobel prize winner Dr. Tasuku Honjo said that the coronavirus is not natural and is completely artificial. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The doctor denied that he made that statement circulating online. THE FACTS: Posts with the fabricated quote were shared thousands of times on Facebook and WhatsApp in English and Spanish.
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). [3]
