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Nobel Prize
Medicine
2016
Yoshinori Ohsumi

Yoshinori Ohsumi

for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy

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Affiliated at time of winning

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Tokyo, Japan

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Prize share: Nobel Prize 2016 1/1
Birth: 1945-02-09
Birth city: Fukuoka
Birth country: Japan
Citizenship: Japan
ORCID: 0000-0003-2384-2166
WDATA: Q8056214
OpenAlex: A5056765809
ROR: 0112mx960

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