Nahum Sonenberg
Nahum Sonenberg, OC FRSC is an Israeli Canadian microbiologist and biochemist. He is a James McGill professor of biochemistry at McGill University in Montreal, 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 mRNAcapbinding protein, eIF4E, the ratelimiting component of the eukaryotic translation apparatus.
Sonenberg was born in a camp for displaced persons in Wetzlar, Germany and grew up in Israel. He received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Microbiology and Immunology from TelAviv University and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1976. He later held a Chaim Weizmann postdoctoral fellowship at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology. He joined McGill University in 1979.
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