Curriculum vitae

Tasuku Honjo

Training and Previous Positions: 1962-1966 Medical Course, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto,Japan 1966 M.D. (Kyoto University) 1967-1971 Graduate School (Medical Chemistry), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan 1975 Ph.D. (Kyoto University) 1971-1973 Fellow of Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Embryology, Baltimore, Maryland 1973-1974 Visiting Fellow and Associate, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 1974-1979 Assistant Professor, Department of Physiological Chemistry and Nu Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 1979-1984 Professor, Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Osaka University,Osaka, Japan 1984-2005 Professor, Department of Medical Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan 1988-1997 Director, Center for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan 1996-2000 Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan 1999-2004 Science Adviser, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) 2002-2004 Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University 2004-2006 Director, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Research Center for Science Systems, Tokyo, Japan 2005-present Professor, Department of Immunology and Genomic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan 2005-present Council Member, Science Council of Japan, Tokyo, Japan 2006-2012 Executive Member, Council for Science and Technology Policy, Cabinet Office, Tokyo, Japan

1/2 Awards and Honor: 1981 Noguchi Hideyo-Memorial Award for Medicine 1982 Asahi Prize 1984 Osaka Science Prize 1984 Kihara Prize of the Japanese Genetics Society 1985 Erwin von Bälz Prize 1988 Takeda Medical Prize 1991-96 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 U.S. National Academy of Sciences 2003 Member of Leopoldina (The German Academy of Natural Scientists) 2004 Leading Japanese Scientists in Emerging Research Fronts (Thomson) 2005 Member of Japan Academy

Named Award Lectures: 1993 Bertram M. Marx Lecture, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA 2002 Philip Levine Memorial Lecture, the Rockefeller University Lecture Series, USA The Dan Campbell Memorial Lecture, Midwinter Conference of Immunologists, USA The 10th Henry Kunkel Society Lecture, A New York Academy of Sciences Conference, USA Pierre Grabar Lecture, Annual Meeting of the French Society of Immunology, France 2003 The Annual Gershon Memorial Lecture, Yale University, USA The Edsall Lecture, Harvard University, USA 2004 Lieberman Lecture, NIH, USA The Henry G. Kunkel Lecture, Johns Hopkins University, USA 2005 Marian Elliott Koshland Memorial Lecture, the University of Chicago, USA 2006 Paul E. Lacy Lecture, Washington University in St. Louis, USA The 5th Ishizuka Lecture, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, USA 2007 The Heidelberger-Kabat Lecture, Columbia University, USA 2008 Leskowitz Memorial Lecture, Tufts University, USA 2011 Bob Smith Lecture, MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

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