Masao Ito

Masao Ito (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 Prize in Neuroscience^[2] and the 1996 Japan Prize.^[3] He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1992.^[4]

Life

Dr. Ito graduated from the University of Tokyo with an M.D. 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 Tokyo from 1963.^[5]

References

1. "RIKEN Brain Science Institute". RIKEN. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
2. "Author Information: Masao Ito". Pearson Education, FT Press. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
3. "Laureates of the Japan Prize: The 1996 (12th) Japan Prize". The Japan Prize Foundation. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
4. List of Fellows of the Royal Society, 1660 - 2007: A complete listing of all Fellows and Foreign Members since the foundation of the Society, A - J (PDF), The Royal Society, Library and Information Services, July 2007, retrieved 19 December 2012
5. "MASAO ITO". Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Washington Office. Retrieved 19 December 2012.

External links

• Ito, Masao (2006). "Distinguished Neuroscientists Interviewed: Masao Ito". History of Neuroscience (IBRO (International Brain Research Organization). Retrieved 19 December 2012.
• Larry R. Squirre, ed. (1998). The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography (PDF) 2. Elsevier. ISBN 9780080534053.