Tasuku Honjo
Tasuku Honjo shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with American immunologist James P. Allison. He is best known for his identification of programmed cell death protein 1. Also known for identification of cytokines: IL-4 and IL-5.
About Tasuku Honjo in brief
Tasuku Honjo is a Japanese physician-scientist and immunologist. He shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with American immunologist James P. Allison. He is best known for his identification of programmed cell death protein 1. Also known for identification of cytokines: IL-4 and IL-5, as well as the discovery of activation-induced cytidine deaminase that is essential for class switch recombination and somatic hypermutation.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, a false claim that Honjo believed that the novel coronavirus had beenmanufactured by a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan was widely disseminated on the internet in many languages. He said he was ‘greatly saddened’ that his name had been used to spread ‘false accusations and misinformation’
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