TOKYO, JAPAN – OCTOBER 03 : Japanese scientist Yoshinori Osumi, Honorary Professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology, attends a news conference at Tokyo Institute of Technology, in Tokyo, Japan on October 3, 2016. The 2016 Nobel Prize for physiology/medicine was awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology for his research into autophagy. (Photo by David Mareuil/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)