Susumu Tonegawa
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Susumu Tonegawa was a Japanese scientist who was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for his discovery of VJ recombination, the genetic mechanism which produces an
Tonegawa early in his tenure at MIT
The University of California, San Diego is a public land-grant research university in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States. Established in 1960, it is the southernmost of
Susumu Tonegawa
…biology. Tonegawa graduated from Kyoto University in 1963 and, due to limited options for molecular biology study in Japan at the time, moved to the University of California, San Diego, to do his doctorate study under Dr. Masaki Hayashi. He received his Ph.D. in 1968. Tonegawa conducted post-doctoral work at the Salk Institute in San…
Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego
Panorama of the Jacobs School of Engineering on Earl Warren College mall. From left to right: Geisel Library, Engineering Building Unit (EBU) I, the Powell-Focht Bioengineering Building, the Computer Science Building, and EBU II (visible through trees)
Geisel Library, named for Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss
Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute building