Tokyo, Oct. 3 (Jiji Press)--Sweden's Karolinska Institute said Monday it will give the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Yoshinori Osumi, honorary professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy, a process for degrading and recycling unnecessary proteins within cells.
Osumi, 71, is the fourth Japanese winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, after Satoshi Omura, professor emeritus at Kitasato University, who won it in 2015, Kyoto University Prof. Shinya Yamanaka, who received it in 2012, and Susumu Tonegawa, director of Riken's Brain Science Institute, who won it in 1987.
It is the third straight year for a Nobel Prize to be won by a Japanese. Osumi is the 25th Japanese to win a Nobel Prize.
"I'm very honored. I feel a special weight for the Nobel Prize," Osumi told a press conference at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called Osumi and congratulated him for winning the prize. Abe told Osumi that he is proud of the achievement as a fellow Japanese.
Osumi, 71, is the fourth Japanese winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, after Satoshi Omura, professor emeritus at Kitasato University, who won it in 2015, Kyoto University Prof. Shinya Yamanaka, who received it in 2012, and Susumu Tonegawa, director of Riken's Brain Science Institute, who won it in 1987.
It is the third straight year for a Nobel Prize to be won by a Japanese. Osumi is the 25th Japanese to win a Nobel Prize.
"I'm very honored. I feel a special weight for the Nobel Prize," Osumi told a press conference at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called Osumi and congratulated him for winning the prize. Abe told Osumi that he is proud of the achievement as a fellow Japanese.
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