UCSD Biology 50th Anniversary Special Event
Nobel Laureate Lecture: Susumu Tonegawa, '68 PhD
From Molecular Biology to Immunology and Neuroscience: A Journey of a Lifetime
Susumu Tonegawa's extraordinary and prolific scientific career may be encapsulated in threes: three continents, three disciplines, and three subjects for his talk:
"I will reminisce about studying molecular biology at UCSD and the Salk Institute as a graduate student in the 1960s; I will discuss the essence of the immunological research we conducted at Basel that led to the Nobel Prize in 1987; and I will outline the exciting contemporary research on learning and memory being conducted at MIT."
Dr. Tonegawa graduated in 1963 from Kyoto University and earned his Ph.D. in molecular biology at UC San Diego, then went on to a postdoctoral fellowship at the Salk Institute. He spent a decade at the Basel Institute for Immunology in Switzerland, and since 1980 has been at M.I.T.
This special Nobel Laureate lecture event is sponsored by the Ray Thomas Edwards Foundation in collaboration UCSD Neurobiology.
