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Nahum Sonenberg joined McGill University in 1979 and is currently James McGill Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and the McGill Cancer Centre. He received a Ph.D. in biochemistry at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and joined the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology in Nutley, New Jersey, with a Chaim Weizmann postdoctoral fellowship. Dr. Sonenberg was awarded the Robert L. Noble Prize from the National Cancer Institute of Canada in 2002, the Killam Prize for Health Sciences in 2005, the Katharine Berkan Judd Award from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in 2007, the Roche Diagnostics Award in 2007, and the Gairdner International Award in 2008. Dr. Sonenberg is an elected member of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Society of London.
RESEARCH ABSTRACT SUMMARY:
Nahum Sonenberg’s primary research interest has been to understand the importance of the control of protein synthesis in biology and medicine. He investigates the importance of translational control in cancer, obesity, innate immunity, and learning and memory. He has also had a long-term interest in virology—studying poliovirus, rhinoviruses, and HIV. HHMI is currently funding his research on learning and memory.
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