Yoshinori Ohsumi

Awards

1. 2012

   Kyoto Prize — Basic Sciences

   Biology

   Outstanding Contribution to Elucidating the Molecular Mechanisms and Physiological Significance of Autophagy, a Cellular Adaptive System to Environment

2. 2015

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   For pioneering the molecular elucidation of autophagy, an essential intracellular, degradation system and when disordered, is linked to many diseases including neurodegeneration, cancer, and infection.

3. 2016

   Nobel Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy

4. 2017

   Breakthrough Prize — Life Sciences

   Biology

   for elucidating autophagy, the recycling system that cells use to generate nutrients from their own inessential or damaged components.