Shizuo Akira

Prix

1. 2011

   Prix international Canada Gairdner

   Biologie

   For his ground-breaking discovery of Toll like receptors and the array of microbial compounds that they recognize to provide innate resistance to infection.

2. 2026

   Prix Japon — Sciences de la vie

   Biologie

   for their discovery of the nucleic acid sensing mechanism by the innate immune system.