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Nahum Sonenberg
Nahum Sonenberg, OC FRS FRSC (Hebrew: נחום סוננברג; born December 29, ) is an IsraeliCanadianmicrobiologist 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 to 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.
Education
Sonenberg was born in a camp for displaced persons in Wetzlar, Germany[3] and grew up in Israel. He received a and in microbiology and immunology from Tel Aviv University and his Ph.D.
in biochemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science in [4] He later held a Chaim Weizmann postdoctoral fellowship at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology.[5&