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MEDICINE // SHIMON SAKAGUCHI Dr. Sakaguchi’s Ques
t TO UNDERSTAND IMMUNE TOLERANCE With a family legacy in medicine dating back to the Shogun era, the Japanese immunologist Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi has dedicated his career to the science. A 30-year-old pivotal discovery led him to this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research in peripheral immune tolerance. T E X T B Y A L E X A N DR A HOE G B E R G P H O T O B Y MARK U S MA R C E T I C NORDICLIFESCIENCE.ORG | 41