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Friends, the Nobel Season of the year 2016 has been started today (3rd October 2016). The Nobel committee has today announced the First Award of Nobel Awards series, i.e., Nobel Prize in Medicine / Physiology in Stockholm. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the year 2016 has been awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi. The Japanese cell biologist, was honored with this award for his discoveries on how cells recycle their content, a process known as autophagy. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Quick Facts about Nobel Physiology / Medicine 2016 Awardee Yoshinori Ohsumi
- From : Fukuoka, Japan
- Born in : 1945
- Occupation : Cell Biologist
- Currently working at : Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
- He won this award for : "his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy"
Note : The 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded for discoveries concerning novel therapies against river blindness, lymphatic filariasis and malaria to William C. Campbell, Satoshi Omura and Youtou Tu.
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