Tasuku Honjo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Japanese immunologist
Date of Birth: 27-Jan-1942
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan
Profession: physician, university teacher, biochemist, immunologist
Nationality: Japan
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
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About Tasuku Honjo
- Tasuku Honjo (?? ?, Honjo Tasuku, born January 27, 1942) is a Japanese physician-scientist and immunologist.
- He shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology 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.He was elected as a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (2001), as a member of German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina (2003), and also as a member of the Japan Academy (2005). In 2018, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with James P.
- Allison.
- He and Allison together had won the 2014 Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science for the same achievement.
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