Japan XR
Science Forum 2021
Researchers and families around the world
Experience in virtual reality space
Creation of serendipity
Guest
Yoshinori Ohsumi
Specially Appointed Professor / Professor Honor
President of Okuma Basic Science Foundation
2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Born: 9 February 1945, Fukuoka, Japan
Affiliation at the time of the award: Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Prize motivation: "for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy."
Torsten Wiesel
President Emeritus of The Rockefeller University
Former Secretary-General of the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization
1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Born: 3 June 1924, Uppsala, Sweden
Affiliation at the time of the award: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system."
Shigekazu Nagata
President of the International HFSP Organization
Professor, Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University
Biography
1972 Graduated from Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo
1977 Completed doctoral course at Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
1977 Assistant Professor, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo
1977-1981 Researcher, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Zurich
1982-1987 Assistant Professor, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo
1987-1998 Director, Molecular Biology Division, Osaka Bioscience Institute
1995-2007 Professor of Genetics, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University
2002-2007 Professor, Space-Time Biology, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University
2007-2015 Professor of Medical Chemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University
2015- Professor, Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University
2018- Chairman, International Human Frontier Science Program Promotion Organization
Award history
Robert Koch Prize, Asahi Prize, Gift Award, Keio Medical Science Prize, Person of Cultural Merit Award, etc.