*anese neuroscientist (born 1965)

Yasunori Hayashi (林 康紀, Hayashi Yasunori, born July 28, 1965) is a *anese neuroscientist who was born in Aichi and grew up in Tokyo. He leads a research group at the RIKEN Brain Science Ins*ute, *an.

Contents

• 1 Education and research history
• 2 Awards and honors
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Education and research history

Hayashi completed an MD at the Faculty of Medicine at Kyoto University from 1984 to 1990, and continued with his PhD at the faculty's Ins*ute for Immunology and Department of Pharmacology from 1990–1994. From 1994–1996 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Neurophysiology of the Ins*ute for Brain Research at the Faculty of Medicine in the University of Tokyo, then in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from 1996–2000.

From 2000–2009 he was *istant Professor (joint) at the RIKEN-MIT Neuroscience Research Center, at the Picower Ins*ute for Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, M*achusetts Ins*ute of Technology, and also, during the same period, the Senior Scientist (joint) at RIKEN's Brain Science Ins*ute, becoming Unit Leader (joint) in 2004. In 2009 he became the team leader at the ins*ute.

Awards and honors

In 1998, Hayashi received the Young Investigator Award from the *anese Pharmacological Society. In 2008 he received both the JSPS Prize for Young Investigators, and the *an Academy Medal

References

External links

• M*achusetts Ins*ute of Technology
• The Picower Ins*ute for Learning and Memory
• RIKEN
• RIKEN Brain Science Ins*ute
• Laboratory Webpage