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
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