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Tasuku Honjo

1942 - Today

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Tasuku Honjo (本庶 佑, Honjo Tasuku; born January 27, 1942) 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. He was elected as a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (2001), as a member of German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina (2003), and also as a member of the Japan Academy (2005). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tasuku Honjo is the 234th most popular physician (down from 230th in 2019), the 470th most popular biography from Japan (down from 415th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Physician. Learn more about Tasuku Honjo's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Tasuku Honjo ranks 234 out of 726. Before him are Frederik Ruysch, Soranus of Ephesus, Ernst-Günther Schenck, Paul Gachet, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, and Hasdai ibn Shaprut. After him are Dominique Jean Larrey, Emil du Bois-Reymond, Asclepiades of Bithynia, Mungo Park, Paul of Aegina, and Robert Atkins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Tasuku Honjo ranks 143. Before him are Anita Pallenberg, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Roger Ebert, Hannu Mikkola, Felice Gimondi, and Manolo Blahnik. After him are Fradique de Menezes, Péter Medgyessy, Isaac Hayes, Robert F. Engle, Valeri Polyakov, and Carole King.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tasuku Honjo ranks 470 out of 6,245. Before him are Emperor Rokujō (1164), Masaharu Homma (1888), Michio Yasuda (1949), Shigemi Ishii (1951), Azai Nagamasa (1545), and Fujiwara no Michinaga (966). After him are Tetsu Katayama (1887), Muryeong of Baekje (462), Emperor Takakura (1161), Yoshijirō Umezu (1882), Yoshihiko Noda (1957), and Kiyoshi Tomizawa (1943).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Japan

Among physicians born in Japan, Tasuku Honjo ranks 4. Before him are Shirō Ishii (1892), Kitasato Shibasaburō (1853), and Hakaru Hashimoto (1881). After him are Hiraga Gennai (1728), Shinya Yamanaka (1962), Kusumoto Ine (1827), Kiyoshi Shiga (1871), Shinobu Ishihara (1879), Hiroshi Nakajima (1928), Kyusaku Ogino (1882), and Sunao Tawara (1873).

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