Kyoto U Research News 2019 Spring

Join us in this special issue as we celebrate the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded jointly to Tasuku Honjo, distinguished professor of Kyoto University, and James P Allison, of the University of Texas, “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation.”

This spring issue’s first section follows Honjo from the announcement of the prize in early October, to his attendance at ‘Nobel week’ in Stockholm in early December, and then to his return to Kyoto later that month. Interspersed are discussions he had with prominent KyotoU scholars and an introduction to the science behind PD-1 and cancer immunotherapy.