Nature’s neuroscience podcast reporter Kerri Smith interviews Susumu Tonegawa via telephone regarding the research paper, “Optogenetic stimulation of a hippocampal engram activates fear memory [...]
The eighth student to have received a doctorate in Biology from UC San Diego, in 1968, Tonegawa gave the following Nobel Laureate Lecture—titled “From Molecular Biology to Immunology and [...]
Outside of certain circles at MIT, you’d be hard pressed to find someone who is familiar with the biotech startup Galenea. The Cambridge, MA-based firm has been researching drugs for [...]
Interviewed by Adam Smith, the editor-in-chief of Nobelprize.org, Susumu Tonegawa describes the Picower Institute, the work of the 1965 Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine which first [...]
WAKO, JAPAN—Susumu Tonegawa, 70, has never shied away from challenges. He left Japan to earn a Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of California, San Diego. After a postdoc at the Salk [...]
Susumu Tonegawa’s father and uncle were engineers and scientists, which was probably the initial influence in his deciding to pursue a career in science. By his senior year in college, fueled by [...]
As part of the MIT Museum’s Second Annual Cambridge Science Festival, Susumu Tonegawa discusses his life and work, and answers questions from the general public, during the “Lunch with a [...]
Parts 1 and 2 of the Picower Institute’s Inaugural Symposium, titled “Vision of the Future,” features Nobel laureates Susumu Tonegawa, Sydney Brenner, Richard Axel, Eric Kandel and James Watson. [...]
In labs around the world, mice learn to navigate complex mazes, locate chocolaty rewards, and after an interval, run the mazes again with maximum efficiency, swiftly collecting all the sweets. [...]