Tasuku Honjo - F1000 Section Head (since 12 July 2001)
Department of Immunology and Genomic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
BIOGRAPHY
ACADEMIC POSITION:Professor, Department of Immunology and Genomic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University
EDUCATION:
• Graduate of the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University
• PhD and MD, Kyoto University
HONORS AND AWARDS:
• 1981 Noguchi Hideyo-Memorial Award for Medicine
• 1981 Asahi Prize
• 1984 Osaka Science Prize
• 1984 Kihara Prize of the Japanese Genetics Society
• 1985 Erwin von Baelz Prize
• 1988 Takeda Medical Prize
• 1991-1996 Fogarty Scholar-in-residence at NIH
• 1992 Behring-Kitasato Prize
• 1994 Uehara Prize
• 1996 The Imperial Prize and the Japan Academy Prize
• 2000 Award 'Persons of Cultural Merit' by Japanese Government
• 2001 Foreign Associate of US National Academy of Sciences
• 2003 Member of Leopoldina (The German Academy of Natural Scientists)
EDITORSHIPS:
• Annales de L'Institut Pasteur immunology (1986-1988)
• Annual Review of Immunology (2004-
• Bio Essays (1984-1989)
• Biomedical Research (1981-
• Cancer Research (1990-2000)
• Clinical and Developmental Immunology (formerly known as Developmental Immunology (2003-
• Current Biology (1993-2003)
• Current Opinion in Cell Biology (1989-1994)
• Current Opinion in Immunology (1993-
• Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology (2003-
• Developmental Immunology (1989-2003)
• European Journal of Immunology (2003-2005)
• Gene Therapy (1993-
• Genes, Chromosomes & Cancer (1989-1995)
• Genomics (1987-2003)
• Growth Factors (1988-
• Immunological Review (1986-1996)
• Immunology Letters (1987-1992)
• International Immunology (1988-1996; 2001-
• Journal of Biochemistry (1986-1988)
• Journal of Molecular and Cellular Immunology (1989-1990)
• Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry (1987-1993)
• Molecular Biology & Medicine (1983-1990)
• Nucleic Acid Research (1986-1988)
• Oxford Surveys on Eukaryotic Gene (1988-1989)
• Progress in Growth Factor Research (1989-
• Research Update Advisory Panel (2003-
• Scandinavian Journal of Immunology (1991-1998)
• Science (1996-2002)
• Technique: A Journal of Methods in Cell and Molecular Biology (1992-
• Telegen Report (1983-1988)
• The Journal of Clinical Investigation (1992-1997)
• The Journal of Experimental Medicine (1992-
• Trends in Immunology (1999-
MEMBERSHIPS:
• Japanese Society for Immunology (President 1999-2000)
• Japanese Society for Molecular Biology
• Japanese Biochemical Society
• Human Genome Organization
• American Association of Immunologists (Honorary Member)
RESEARCH INTERSTS:
Molecular mechanism for antibody memory.