Nahum Sonenberg
1946
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country of citizenship: Canada
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Tel Aviv University, Weizmann Institute of Science, Roche Institute of Molecular Biology
occupation: biochemist, university teacher, microbiologist
award received: Fellow of the Royal Society, Officer of the Order of Canada, Wolf Prize in Medicine, Canada Gairdner International Award, Rosenstiel Award, Robert L. Noble Prize, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, honorary doctorate at the Laval University, Prix Wilder-Penfield
Nahum Sonenberg, (Hebrew: נחום סוננברג; born December 29, 1946) is an Israeli Canadian microbiologist and biochemist. He is a James McGill professor of biochemistry at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was an HHMI international research scholar from 1997 to 2011 and is now a senior international research scholar. He is best known for his seminal contributions to our understanding of translation, and notable for the discovery of the mRNA 5' cap-binding protein, eIF4E, the rate-limiting component of the eukaryotic translation apparatus. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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