2006 - Tadatsugu Taniguchi
Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine
University of Tokyo, Japan
Motivation:
For his groundbreaking discoveries that have had a major impact on cancer research and molecular immunology, which include isolation and characterization of the first cytokine genes (interferon-β; and interleukin-2), discovery of the IRF family of transcription factors, and elucidation of their functions.
