# Tasuku Honjo (@tasuku-honjo)

Tasuku Honjo was a physician-scientist and immunologist. Honjo's group identified PD-1 on immune cells and established that it restrains immune responses.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Tasuku Honjo's public record._

## Topics

- [Immunology Beyond PD-1](/@tasuku-honjo/immunology-beyond-pd-1.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Cancer Immunotherapy](/@tasuku-honjo/cancer-immunotherapy.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Discovering PD-1](/@tasuku-honjo/discovering-pd-1.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2018/honjo/facts/
- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2018/advanced-information/
- blog: https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/about/honors/international-awards/nobel-laureates/tasuku-honjo

## Ask this twin

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```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "tasuku-honjo", "question": "…"}`.