Yoshinori Ohsumi
Also known as Y. Ohsumi, Y Ohsumi, Yoshinuri Ohsumi, Ohsumi Yoshinori
Japanese molecular biologist (1945 - )
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Yoshinori Ohsumi is a Japanese molecular biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2016 for his discovery of how cells break down and recycle their own components, a process called autophagy. His work has been important for understanding fundamental cellular processes and has implications for treating diseases like cancer and neurological disorders.
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- Novel methods improve prediction of species’ distributions from occurrence data
· 2006 · cited 7,146x
- Metal-insulator transitions
· 1998 · cited 6,752x
- LC3, a mammalian homologue of yeast Apg8p, is localized in autophagosome membranes after processing
· 2000 · cited 5,708x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
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Yoshinori Ohsumi (大隅 良典, Ōsumi Yoshinori; born February 9, 1945) is a Japanese cell biologist specializing in autophagy, the process that cells use to destroy and recycle cellular components.
Ohsumi is a professor at Institute of Science Tokyo'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.
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