A Japanese gastroenterologist won this year’s Ig Nobel Medical Education Prize on Thursday for examining the effectiveness of colonoscopy in the sitting position using his own body.
A Japanese gastroenterologist won this year’s Ig Nobel Medical Education Prize on Thursday for examining the effectiveness of colonoscopy in the sitting position using his own body.
Akira Horiuchi, 57, head of the digestive disease center at Showa Inan General Hospital in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, received the award at a ceremony held at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
This marked the 12th straight year of Japanese receiving the spoof version of the Nobel Prize.
