Susumu tonegawa biography of donald

Immunologist Susumu Tonegawa (born 1939) received the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for his discovery of the principle under which human genes rearrange to form the antibodies that fight disease.

As a graduate student in 1968 he left Japan to earn his Ph.D. in molecular biology at the University of California at San Diego.

Susumu tonegawa biography of donald

Susumu tonegawa biography of donald

Gairdner foundation international award, 1983

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He then traveled to the Basel Institute of Immunology in Switzerland where he conducted his Nobel winning research. After ten years, he returned to the United States to teach at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Cancer Research.

In 1998 as an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, he used genetically engineered mice to research mechanisms used in learning and memory.

Interest in Chemistry Turned to Biology

Susumu Tonegawa was born in Nagoya, Japan, on September 6, 1939, the son of textile engineer Tsutomu and mother Miyoko.

He had two brothers and a sister. His father needed to travel to various