JSPS Prize awarded to Dr. Yasunori Hayashi, RIKEN Unit Leader
January 15, 2008
Evaluation Section
Dr. Yasunori Hayashi It has been announced that on December 25, 2007 the JSPS Prize will be awarded to Dr. Yasunori Hayashi for his work on molecular mechanisms of hippocampal synaptic plasticity. Dr. Hayashi is a Unit Leader in the RIKEN Brain Science Institute.
We offer our sincere congratulations to Dr. Hayashi on this honor.

About the JSPS Prize


Dr. Yasunori Hayashi:
April 1990 - March 1994
Graduate School, Institute for Immunology, Department of Pharmacology, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine, M.D., Ph. D.
April 1994 - March 1996
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurophysiology, Institute for Brain Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo
April 1996 - March 2000
Postdoctoral Fellow, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
April 2000 - April 2004
Senior Scientist, Neuronal Circuit Mechanisms Research Group, RIKEN Brain Science Institute
July 2000 - Present
Assistant Professor, RIKEN-MIT Neuroscience Research Center, The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
April 2004 - Present
Unit leader, Hayashi Research Unit, RIKEN Brain Science Institute