Picower Institute for Learning and Memory

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The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory is, along with the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, one of the three neuroscience groups at MIT. It was run by Nobel Prize laureate Susumu Tonegawa until his resignation on November 17, 2006. The institute is focused on studying all aspects of learning and memory; specifically, it has received over $50 million to study Alzheimer's, schizophrenia and similar diseases. When it was established in 1994, the institute was primarily funded by the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, the RIKEN Brain Science Institute and the National Institute of Mental Health. It was renamed after a massive grant by the Picower Foundation in 2002.

The institute is probably best-known to the public for a recent controversy when Tonegawa sent e-mails discouraging a promising young scientist who was considering a job at the McGovern Institute, telling her that they could not collaborate. Some saw this as a normal occurrence in the high-stakes world of research science, while others saw it as unnecessarily hostile and perhaps even sexist.

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