Yoshinori Ohsumi

(born 9 February 1945) is a Japanese cell biologist. He won the 2016 Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries of how cell autophagy works.

Autophagy is the process that cells use to break down and recycle cellular components. This allows the orderly recycling of cellular components.

Ohsumi is a professor in Institute of Science Tokyo's Frontier Research Center.Yoshinori Ohsumi's biog in ORCID He got the Kyoto Prize for Basic Science in 2012.

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