Susumu Tonegawa

In 1981, after ten years in Basel, I returned to the United States to continue my research on the immune system at the Center for Cancer Research of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where Director Salvador E. Luria provided me with an excellent laboratory.

In the early Seventies, the technology for purifying a specific eukaryotic mRNA was just becoming available.

Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.