That was announced Monday at the Karolinska institute in Stockholm, a medical university. Ohsumi’s work is, according to the BBC important because it provides insight into what exactly goes wrong in the body in different diseases, including cancer and Alzheimers.
Ohsumi was born in 1945 in Fukuoka, in Japan. He works at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
In 2015, was awarded the Nobel prize for medicine awarded to the Japanese biochemist Satoshi Ōmura, the American biologist William C. Campbell, and the Chinese scientist Youyou Tu, for “discoveries concerning new therapies for infections caused by parasitic roundworms”.
Tuesday is the winner of the Nobel prize for physics published.
No comments:
Post a Comment