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Susumu Tonegawa (利根川 進, Tonegawa Susumu, born September 5, 1939) is a Japanese scientist who was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for his discovery of V(D)J recombination, the genetic mechanism which produces antibody diversity.
Susumu Tonegawa is a Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience at MIT and the Director of the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics. He won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for his discovery of the genetic principle for antibody diversity and has since studied learning and memory.
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Susumu Tonegawa is a Nobel laureate and a Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience at MIT. He studies the molecular and neural mechanisms of learning and memory in rodents using genetically engineered mice and optogenetic techniques.
Susumu Tonegawa is a Japanese molecular biologist who won the Nobel Prize for his work on the structure and function of antibodies. He studied in Japan, the U.S. and Switzerland, and discovered the diversity of antibody genes and the mechanism of V(D)J recombination.
AJ Silva, CF Stevens, S Tonegawa, Y Wang. Science 257 (5067), 201-206. , 1992. 2551 *. 1992. The essential role of hippocampal CA1 NMDA receptor–dependent synaptic plasticity in spatial memory.
Tonegawa Laboratory – Neuroscience Research Lab at MIT. Our lab seeks to unravel the molecular, cellular and neural circuit mechanisms that underlie learning and memory... We are a band of passionate and ambitious neuroscientists exploring some of the brain's greatest mysteries.
Susumu Tonegawa. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1987. Born: 5 September 1939, Nagoya, Japan. Affiliation at the time of the award: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA. Prize motivation: “for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity” Prize share: 1/1. Work.
