Nahum Sonenberg

Nahum Sonenberg
Born (1946-12-29) December 29, 1946 (age 77)
Alma materTel-Aviv University
Weizmann Institute of Science
Known forTranslational Control
eIF4E
AwardsGairdner Foundation International Award (2008)
Robert L. Noble Prize
Wolf Prize
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry
InstitutionsThe Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Research Centre
McGill University

Nahum Sonenberg, OC FRS FRSC (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.[1] He was an HHMI international research scholar from 1997 to 2011 and is now a senior international research scholar.[2] 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.

  1. ^ "James McGill Professor"McGill University (Retrieved on Dec 10, 2013)
  2. ^ "Our Scientists" Archived 2017-09-22 at the Wayback MachineHHMI (Retrieved on Dec 10, 2013)

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