Message from Dr. Tasuku Honjo - The 2016 Kyoto Prize Laureate in Basic Sciences

There are two main paths to medicine. I'm a clinical doctor who sees patients and solves their problems. Although you can't touch more patients directly, explain the principle. For example, finding new drugs, doing research, basic medicine and so on. I've been wondering for a while about how to do that. In the end, patients are limited in the number of times they can see themselves in their lifetime. Find something new, give it back to your patients, This is no longer useful to people all over the world, so I wonder if it's any bigger than this one. I decided to do basic medicine. Research is not just about studying. Reading a paper and remembering it is not a study, it is a knowledge. overcoming ends with knowing that the knowledge of the past is correct. So I'll definitely think in my own head whether what's written is true or not. I think it is very important that this is the starting point of the research. First, as a leader, the policy is clear. Then break it. If you change it wrong, it's better this way. But it's not a situation where the next person doesn't know which way to go. At least for now, I'll be like this. Until I hit the wall, I'll be like this. It is very important to have a clear strategy and policy first. And of course there are always people who are against my opinion. You can talk to that person properly and talk to him. That's about to be discussed. Tell the lab to look at the researcher. Are you curious? And then pursuing curiosity is also challenging. It's not a challenge to do what everyone else does. It's very strange to want to know something. It's a challenge to do it. It takes courage to challenge. These three C's are the most important. I'm going to challenge you with courage. I'm going to say that this is the beginning of science.