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Science & Medicine

Joshua Sanes

Who

Joshua Sanes · Science & Medicine

What

Neurobiologist of synapse formation; FMRS

When

1949, USA

Where

United States (Washington University · Harvard)

Biography

Joshua Sanes is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Neurobiologist of synapse formation; FMRS

How & why

Sanes is a neurobiologist whose research illuminated how synapses — the connections between nerve cells — form and are organized, work central to understanding how neural circuits are wired. He founded and directed Harvard's Center for Brain Science and was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. He is listed among Jewish scientists in Jewish biographical references (Jinfo) and holds an honorary doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews elected to Foreign Membership of the British Royal Society

Contributions & Sources

Neurobiologist of synapse formation; FMRS

2020

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews elected to Foreign Membership of the British Royal Society