Tokyo, July 16 (Jiji Press)–Susumu Tonegawa, the first Japanese laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, died on Saturday at the age of 86, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to which he belonged, has announced. Tonegawa received the Nobel prize in 1987 for clarifying how genes produce various antibodies that play an important role in immunity. He later made a lot of achievements in research in the field of brain science. END [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]
Susumu Tonegawa, 1st Japanese Nobel Medicine Laureate, Dies at 86