Yoshinori Ohsumi
Yoshinori Ohsumi
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2016
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Name: Yoshinori Ohsumi
Birth: 9 February 1945, Fukuoka, Japan
Residence: Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Award: “for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy.”
Portion of Cash: 1/1
Award: “for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy.”
Nobel Prize Cash & Philanthropy
Yoshinori Ohsumi is said to have used the Nobel Prize money to establish a foundation. The foundation promotes basic research in biological sciences.