CURRICULUM VITAE FOR:Nobutaka Hirokawa, M.D., Ph. D. Project Professor
University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Medicine
ADDRESS: Uenosakuragi, 1-10-19-811, Taitou-ku, Tokyo, Japan
110-0002, Tel 81-3-3823-8755, Fax 81-3-2823-8755
BIRTH: March 25, 1946; Yokosuka, Japan
EDUCATION:
1971M.D., University of Tokyo, School of Medicine.
1978Ph.D., Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Tokyo, School of Medicine. (Neurobiology, Cell Biology)
1979-1980Postdoctoral, University of California San Francisco. (Cell Biology, Neurobiology)
1980-1981Postdoctoral, Washington University, School of Medicine. (Cell Biology, Neurobiology)
RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1972-1981Assistant Professor of Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of Tokyo.
1981-1983Research Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Washington University, School of Medicine.
1983-1983Associate Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University, School of Medicine.
1983 -2009Professor and Chairman of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo.
2003 - 2007Dean, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo.
2004 -present Member of Japan Academy
2009- present Distinguished Project Professor, Graduate School, University of Tokyo
HONORS, AWARDS, AND SPECIAL ACTIVITIES:
1979-1980Fogarty International Exchanging Fellowship of NIH.
1980-1981The George Meany Postdoctoral Fellowship of Muscular Dystrophy Association of America.
1985Seto Prize from the Japanese Society of Electron Microscopy
1987Tsukahara Prize from the Brain Science Foundation
1991The Prize for Basic Medical Science from the Japanese Society for Medical Science
1992Smith Kline Beecham Lecture in Health Sciences, University College London
1995Uehara Prize from the Uehara Life Science Foundation
1996Asahi Prize from the Asahi Newspaper Company
1998Takeda Medical Prize from Takeda Science Foundation
1999Japan Academy Prize from the Japan Academy
1999Fujiwara Prize from the Fujiwara Science Foundation
2001Karolinska Research Lecture at Nobel Forum
2001The Dr. Smith Freeman lectureship in Biochemistry, Northwestern University Medical School
2001Berta V. Scharrer Lecture, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
2002Gail F. Beach Memorial Visiting Lecture, The University of Miami School of Medicine
2002Davies Lectureship, University of Pennsylvania
2003Elected EMBO Associate Member (European Molecular Biology Organization)
2004 Member of Japan Academy
2005 Eduard Buchner-Prize (German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
2013 Award for Person of Cultural Merit (Japanese Government)
2013 AAAS fellow
EDITORIAL BOARDS:
Serving presently: Neuron, Developmental Cell, J Cell Biology, EMBO Journal, Current Opinion in Cell Biology, Trends in Cell Biology, Experimental Cell Research
Serving in the past: Cell, Science, Current Opinion in Neurobiology,Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Neurocytology, European Journal of Cell Biology,
ACTIVITIES FOR SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES:
1998-2001President, Japan Society for Cell Biology
2001- 2003Member of Council of Scientists, Human Frontier Science Program
2005-2009 President of Asian Pacific Congress of Anatomists
2008-2011 President of Asian Pacific Organization for Cell Biology (APOCB)
2009-2011 President of Japanese Society of Microscopy
2009-present Member of Board of Trustee, Human Frontier Science Program
2012-present President of Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)
2012-present President of International Federation for Cell Biology (IFCB)
1998-2009Director, Japan Society of Neuroscience
PLENARY LECTURES IN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES (selected from 109):
1.The American Society for Cell Biology and European Molecular Biology Organization 4th Joint Meeting. Aug 5-10, 1995. Cambridge, UK
2.European Congress for Molecular Cell Biology; The Journal of Cell Science Lecture.Mar 22-25, 1997. Brighton, England.
3. XXXIV International Congress of Physiological Sciences. Aug 27,2001. Christchurch, New Zealand.
4. The 16th International Microscopy Congress. September 3-8, 2006,Sapporo, Japan
5. The 9th International Congress on Cell Biology. October 8, 2008. COEX, Seoul, Korea.
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