Ph.D., Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego
- Member, Basel Institute for Immunology, Basel, Switzerland (until August 1981)
- September 1981, Professor of Biology, Center for Cancer Research and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (- present)
- February 1988, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator (-present)
- Director, MIT Center for Learning and Memory (until April 2002)
- Director, RIKEN-MIT Neuroscience Research Center (until April 2008)
- Director, the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory (until December 2006)
- April 2009, Director, RIKEN Brain Science Institute (- present)
| September 2005 | Member, Board of Governors, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Promotion Corporation (until October 2011) |
| September 2009 | Establishing Member of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology School Corporation (until October 2011) |
| November 2011 | Member, Board of Governors, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology School Corporation (-present) |
| 1984 | Order of Culture “Bunkakunsho” from the Emperor of Japan |
| 1987 | Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine |
