2016 Nobel Prize In Medicine Awarded To Yoshinori Ohsumi Of Japan

Born in Fukuoka, Japan, Ohsumi received a Ph.D from the University of Tokyo. He spent three years at Rockefeller University in New York before returning to his alma mater, where he established a research group in 1988. Since 2009, he has worked as a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

“I am extremely honored,” he told the Kyodo News agency.

Ohsumi is the sixth person from Japan to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine. According to The Associated Press, the prize is worth about $930,000.