Immunologist
Tasuku Honjo
Japanese immunologist whose work led to cancer immunotherapy.
Tasuku Honjo is a Japanese physician-scientist and immunologist. He won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and is best known for his identification of programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1). He is also known for his molecular identification of cytokines IL-4 and IL-5, as well as the discovery of activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) that is essential for class switch recombination and somatic hypermutation.
- Born
- 1942-01-27, Kyoto, JapanA Tuesday
- At birth
- Sun in Aquarius, Moon in Gemini
- Nationality
- Japan
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1942-01-27, Kyoto, Japan · time unknown, noon chart
Asia/Tokyothe zone used then
Asia/TokyoThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Aquarius | 6°33′ | Direct |
| Moon | Gemini | 7°32′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Aquarius | 24°54′ | Direct |
| Venus | Aquarius | 17°10′ | Retrograde |
| Mars | Taurus | 7°49′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Gemini | 11°31′ | Retrograde |
| Saturn | Taurus | 21°38′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Taurus | 26°22′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Virgo | 29°41′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Leo | 4°35′ | Retrograde |
Tasuku Honjo is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Tasuku Honjo was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.