Shimon Sakaguchi

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Shimon Sakaguchi

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Shimon Sakaguchi
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025

Born: 19 January 1951, Nagahama, Shiga, Japan

Affiliation at the time of the award: The University of Osaka, Osaka, Japan

Prize motivation: “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance”

Prize share: 1/3

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