HONJO Tasuku
Dr. Honjo Tasuku was born in Kyoto in 1942. After graduating from the Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, and completing his doctorate at the university’s Graduate School of Medicine, he went on to positions such as fellow at the Carnegie Institution of Washington; visiting fellow at the National Institutes of Health in the United States; assistant professor of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo; professor of the Faculty of Medicine at both Osaka University and Kyoto University. He currently serves as deputy director-general and distinguished professor of the Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study as well as director of the Center for Cancer Immunotherapy and Immunobiology at Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine. Dr. Honjo is a winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Selected works: Kofukukan ni kansuru Seibutsugakuteki Zuiso [Biological Reflections on Happiness]. Shodensha, 2020.
Genomu ga Kataru Seimeizo: Gendaijin no tame no Saishin Seimei Kagaku Nyumon [The Image of Life as Told by the Genome: A New Introduction to Life Science for Today]. Kodansha, 2013.
Men’eki to Ketsueki no Kagaku (Iwanami Koza Gendai Igaku no Kiso 8) [The Science of Immunity and Blood, volume 8. Iwanami Courses: Principles of Current Medicine], joint editor. Iwanami Shoten, 1999.
Seimeitai no Mamorikata (Iwanami Koza Bunshi Seibutsugaku 11) [How Organisms Defend Themselves, volume 11. Iwanami Courses: Molecular Biology], editor. Iwanami Shoten, 1991.
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