Hiroshi Ito, Group Leader

Born: Gunma, Japan
Nationality: Japanese

Education & Positions

04.2020 -             
External Lecturer, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
2016 -                   
Max Planck Research Group Leader at the MPI for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2013 - 2015         
Research Scientist at Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for Neural Computation, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway       
2009 - 2013         
Postdoctoral fellow at Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for the Biology of Memory, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
2010                     
Ph.D. in Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
2003                     
M.D., Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Awards & Grants

2020 – 2022       
Max Planck-Chilean Catholic University Network for Systems Neuroscience
2019                     
Alfred Dollwet Foundation
2018 – 2021       
Human Frontier Science Program Research Grant
2017                     
Young Investigator Award from Japan Neuroscience Society
2017 – 2022       
European Research Council Starting Grant
2016 – 2020       
PRESTO program, Japan Science and Technology Agency
2016 – 2019       
Behrens-Weise Foundation
2003 – 2008       
Nakajima Foundation Fellowship, Japan