Yoshinori Ohsumi (大隅 良典, Ōsumi Yoshinori?) (born February 9, 1945) is a Japanese cell biologist specializing in autophagy, is a professor in Tokyo Institute of Technology's Frontier Research Center. He received the Kyoto Prize for Basic Science in 2012,[1] and the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy.[2]