About Tasuku Honjo
Born in Kyoto in 1942, Tasuku Honjo completed his medical degree at Kyoto University in 1966, and continued to study medical chemistry with Osamu Hayaishi, one of the pioneers in biochemistry and enzymology who had worked with Arthur Kornberg, and Yasutomi Nishizuka, one of Hayaishi’s former students at Kyoto University. From 1971 to 1973 Honjo was a fellow at the Department of Embryology at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and then became a fellow in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at NIH until 1974. Honjo received his PhD degree for medical chemistry from Kyoto University in 1975.
Honors & Awards (Selection)
- 1996: The Imperial Prize and the Japan Academy Prize
- 2000: Award “Person of Cultural Merit” by the Japanese Government
- 2001 Foreign Associate of U.S. National Academy of Science
- 2003: Member of Leopoldina (The German Academy of Natural Scientists)
- 2012: Robert Koch Prize
- 2013: Order of Culture, Japan
- 2014: Tang Prize, Biopharmaceutical Science Award
- 2016: Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate, Physiology or Medicine
- 2016: Kyoto Prize
- 2016: The Keio Medical Science Prize
- 2016: Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award in Biomedicine
- 2018: JMA Supreme Award of Merit
- 2018: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 2019: Fellow of the AACR Academy in 2019
- 2019: Academician of Honor of the Spanish Royal Academy of Medicine
- 2019: Honorary Member of The Physiological Society
- 2022: Honorary Academician of Academia Sinica, 2022