Honorary Professor Yoshinori Ohsumi and colleagues at Tokyo Tech have analyzed the Atg protein Atg2, whose function had been completely unknown, and have discovered that Atg2 tethers the pre ...

Japanese biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi ... drugs that can target autophagy in various diseases," it said in its citation. Ohsumi, 71, from Fukuoka, Japan, is a professor at the Tokyo Institute ...

In 2016, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries about autophagy.