
Yoshinori Ohsumi
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 2016for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy
- Citizenship
Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
- date of birth
- 2/9/1945
- place of birth
- Fukuoka
- Age
- 81 years
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- occupation
- biologist
- field of work
- autophagy
- molecular biology
- educated at
- The Rockefeller University
- start time: 1974
- end time: 1977
- Fukuoka Prefectural Fukuoka High School
- University of Tokyo
- start time: 1963
- end time: 1972
- The Rockefeller University
- employer
- National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan
- Graduate University for Advanced Studies
- Tokyo Institute of Technology