BiographyTasuku Honjo, Deputy Director-General and Distinguished Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Kyoto University
January1942
Born
March1966
M.D., Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University
September1971
Fellow of Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Embryology
July1973
Visiting Fellow and Associate of National Institutes of Health
November1974
Assistant Professor of Faculty of Medicine, the University of Tokyo
December1979
Professor of School of Medicine, Osaka University
March1984
Professor of Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University
April1995
Professor of Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University
October1996
Dean of Faculty of Medicine/Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University (through September 2000)
October2002
Dean of Faculty of Medicine/Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University (through September 2004)
April2005
Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University
Specially-Appointed Professor of Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University
June2006
Executive Member of the Council for Science and Technology Policy, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan (through January 2012)
Visiting Professor of Kyoto University (through April 2017)
April2012
Chairman, Board of Directors of Shizuoka Prefectural University Corporation (through April 2017)
July2015
President of Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation (currently Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation at Kobe)
May2017
Distinguished Professor of Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study (KUIAS)
April2018
Deputy Director-General and Distinguished Professor of Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study (KUIAS)
Major Awards
1981
25th Noguchi Hideyo Memorial Award for Medicine
1982
1982 Asahi Prize
1996
The Imperial Prize and the Japan Academy Prize
2000
Person of Cultural Merit
2001
Foreign Associate of U.S. National Academy of Sciences
2004
Thomson Leading Japanese Scientists in Emerging Research Fronts
2005
Member of the Japan Academy
2012
Robert Koch Prize
2013
Order of Culture, Japan
2014
Tang Prize
William B. Coley Award
JCA-CHAAO Award, Japanese Cancer Association
2015
Richard V. Smalley, MD Memorial Award
2016
Kyoto Prize
The Keio Medical Science Prize
Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award in Biomedicine
The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award for Drug Research and Development
