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Born in in a displaced persons camp in Germany to Jewish parents who had fled to Russia from Poland, Sonenberg was raised and educated in..
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.
Nahum Sonenberg, who was appointed an Offier of the Order of Canada in and lives in Montreal, was named one of the eight Wolf Prize winners.
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&