Alex on Instagram: "Yoshinori Ohsumi The Nobel Prize in Physiology on Medicine 2016 Fukuoka, Japan Affiliation at the time of the award: Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan Prize motivation: “for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy” In the lysosomes of our cells its components are processed for reuse. The mechanisms of this process were mostly unknown until the early 1990s, when Yoshinori Ohsumi conducted a series of groundbreaking experiments with yeast, where he detected autoph