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Tasuku Honjo

Japanese immunologist and Nobel laureate

Japan · b. 1942

Science and medicine

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Question How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure? Failure & regret read 68 other answers →
No, no. Well, you know, biology is such a complex system. It’s totally different from the engineering. We cannot design. Many people tried to find the therapy for cancer, but all failed. And myself, I never expected my research, working on the immune system, would lead to the cancer therapy. But, in a sense, I’m very fortunate that I also thought about it. You know, you have to try many things and if you’re lucky you can hit, but you have to pursue. That’s my feeling.
Recorded Adam Smith, Telephone interview recorded shortly after the prize announcement, Nobel Prize Outreach, 1 October 2018 source ↗

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