Yoshinori Ohsumi
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 2016for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy
- Citizenship
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Japan - Languages
- Japanese
- date of birth
- 2/9/1945
- place of birth
- Fukuoka
- Age
- 81 years
- educated at
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- University of Tokyo
- end time: 1/1/1972
- start time: 1/1/1963
- The Rockefeller University
- end time: 1/1/1977
- start time: 1/1/1974
- Fukuoka Prefectural Fukuoka High School
- University of Tokyo
- employer
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- National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan
- Graduate University for Advanced Studies
- Tokyo Institute of Technology
- field of work
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- molecular biology
- autophagy
- occupation
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- biologist