Daisuke Nishio

Professor of Chemistry at Tokyo Institute of Technology

Daisuke Nishio is a Japanese chemist who was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the discovery of the mechanism for autophagy. He is currently a professor of chemistry at Tokyo Institute of Technology. Nishio has also worked at the North Institute for Medical Research and is a visiting professor at North Lake Biomedical University. He is known for his research on the discovery of ne...