Susumu Tonegawa

Awards

1. 1983

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   For his discovery that antibody diversity is produced by somatic recombination and mutation of genes.

2. 1987

   Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Biology

   For imaginative studies of somatic recombinations in the immune system, detailing in molecular terms the genetics of antibody diversity.

3. 1987

   Nobel Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity