1996: The Picower Center Director, Professor Susumu Tonegawa, MIT President, Dr. Charles Vest, and Menicon Chairman, Dr. Kyoichi Tanaka at the announcement of the Menicon gift.

 

Menicon, Ltd., Japan's premier manufacturer of contact lenses, has provided generous funding for a new chair in neuroscience. Dr. Morgan Sheng, an internationally respected molecular neurobiologist, became the inaugural Menicon Professor in Neuroscience in 2001.