Masao Ito

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]

References

1. ^ http://www.riken.go.jp/engn/r-world/research/lab/nokagaku/index.html
2. ^ http://www.ftpress.com/authors/author_bio.aspx?ISBN=9780137050680
3. ^ http://www.japanprize.jp/en/prize_past_1996_prize02.html
4. ^ http://www.jspsusa.org/FORUM1997/bio.ito.html

External links

• Distinguished Neuroscientists Interviewed: Masao Ito, History of Neuroscience

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