- Masao Ito
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Masao Ito ForMemRS (伊藤正男 Itō Masao , born 1928 in Nagoya, Japan) is a Japanese neuroscientist, and director of the Riken Brain Science Institute.[1] He won the 2006 Gruber Neuroscience Prize,[2] and the 1996 Japan Prize.[3]
Life
He graduated from the University of Tokyo with an MD in 1953, and a Ph.D. in 1959. He was a research fellow at Australian National University from 1959 to 1962. He taught at the University of Toyko from 1963.[4]
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Categories:- 1928 births
- Foreign Members of the Royal Society
- University of Tokyo faculty
- University of Tokyo alumni
- Living people
- Japanese scientists
- Neuroscientists
- Recipients of the Order of Culture
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