Yoshinori Ohsumi

“I think the essence of science—what really makes it so much fun—is to do what others aren’t doing…rather than doing what everyone else in the pack is flocking to…I think it’s a problem when the word ‘useful’ is treated as a synonym for something that can be commercialized in the next few years.”

–Yoshinori Ohsumi

Japanese biologist and winner
of 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
for elucidations on cellular waste recycling (autophagy)
and the body’s ability to recycle proteins