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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.
Tonegawa is currently the Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Director of the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics at MIT. He is also an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Susumu Tonegawa. Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience; Director, RIKEN-MIT Laboratory for Neural Circuit Genetics
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1987 was awarded to Susumu Tonegawa "for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity"
Deficient cerebellar long-term depression and impaired motor learning in mGluR1 mutant mice. A Alba, M Kano, C Chen, ME Stanton, GD Fox, K Herrup, TA Zwingman, ... Cell 79...
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.
Tonegawa Susumu (born September 5, 1939, Nagoya, Japan) is a Japanese molecular biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for his discovery of the genetic mechanisms underlying the great diversity of antibodies produced by the vertebrate immune system.
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Susumu Tonegawa received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of California, San Diego. After postdoctoral training at the Salk Institute, he joined the Basel Institute for Immunology. In 1981, he was appointed Professor of Biology at MIT and a member of the Center for Cancer Research.
