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Something wrong?Tasuku Honjo 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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At Nobel press conference in Stockholm, December 2018
Cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation (CTLA4, PD1)
Shun'ichi Iwasaki, Ken Takakura, Seikaku Takagi, Susumu Nakanishi and Honjo received the Order of Culture from Emperor Akihito on November 3, 2013. After that they posed for photo with Shinzō Abe at the East Garden of the Imperial Palace.![With Masuo Aizawa [ja] on August 26, 2010](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Masuo_Aizawa_and_Tasuku_Honjo_20100826.jpg)
With Masuo Aizawa [ja] on August 26, 2010Awards
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Tasuku Honjo 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). 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.
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