Susumu Tonegawa
Susumu Tonegawa was born in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan on September 6th, 1939 and is the Japanese Biologist. At the age of 85, Susumu Tonegawa biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Tonegawa conducted post-doctoral work at the Salk Institute in San Diego in the laboratory of Renato Dulbecco. With encouragement from Dr. Dulbecco, Tonegawa moved to the Basel Institute for Immunology in Basel, Switzerland in 1971, where he transitioned from molecular biology into immunology studies and carried out his landmark immunology studies.
In 1981, Tonegawa became a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1994, he was appointed as the first Director of the MIT Center for Learning and Memory, which developed under his guidance into The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory. Tonegawa resigned his directorship in 2006 and currently serves as a Picower Professor of Neuroscience and Biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.
Tonegawa also served as Director of the RIKEN Brain Science Institute from 2009 to 2017.
- 1982 – Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
- 1983 – Gairdner Foundation International Award
- 1984 – Order of Culture (Bunkakunsho), Emperor of Japan
- 1984 – Foreign Associate, American Academy of Arts and Sciences of the United States
- 1986 – Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences of the United States
- 1986 – Robert Koch Prize
- 1987 – Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
- 1987 – Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
- 1995 – honored on a stamp (Scott No. 1635c) issued by Gambia
- 2004 – Honorary Degree, Kyoto University
- 2006 – Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2007 – RIKEN Fellow
- 2009 – Honorary Degree, City University of Hong Kong
- 2010 – David M. Bonner Lifetime Achievement Award, UCSD
