Yoshinori Ohsumi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Yoshinori Ohsumi

Japanese molecular biologist

Date of Birth: 09-Feb-1945

Place of Birth: Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Profession: biologist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Yoshinori Ohsumi (?? ??, Osumi Yoshinori, born February 9, 1945) is a Japanese cell biologist specializing in autophagy, the process that cells use to destroy and recycle cellular components.
Ohsumi is a professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology's Institute of Innovative Research.
He received the Kyoto Prize for Basic Sciences in 2012, the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy.