The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is Awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his “discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy” Professor Ohsumi has been recognized for his role in the discovery of autophagy, a cellular self-renewal process. AsianScientist (Oct. 4, 2016) Professor Yoshinori Ohsumi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology has been awarded the 2016 Nobel …