Yoshinori Ohsumi

Yoshinori Ohsumi is a Japanese cell biologist specializing in autophagy, the process that cells use to destroy and recycle cellular components. Ohsumi is a professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology's Institute of Innovative Research. He received the Kyoto Prize for Basic Sciences in 2012, the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy.

9 February 1945

Born on the same birth date (9 February 1945): Carol Wood • Mia Farrow

Born on the same birth day (9 February): A. J. Buckley • Alexis Smirnoff • Angelos Charisteas • Carol Wood • Farkas Bolyai • Fred Allen (rugby union) • John B. Cobb • John Kruk • Judith Light • Kermit Gosnell • Lipót Fejér • Mario Pašalić • Peter Rowsthorn (actor) • Pope Honorius II • Rinus Michels • Saquon Barkley • Sir John Duckworth, 1st Baronet • Tatsuro Hirooka

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