the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award
the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
to
Yoshinori Ohsumi
for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagySummary
This year’s Nobel Laureate discovered and elucidated mechanisms underlying autophagy, a fundamental process for degrading and recycling cellular components.
The word autophagy originates from the Greek words auto-, meaning “self”, and phagein, meaning “to eat”. Thus, autophagy denotes “self eating”. This concept emerged during the 1960’s, when researchers first observed that the
