ANN ARBOR, MI, February 21, 2025 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Tetsufumi Ueda, PhD, neurochemist (retired) and professor emeritus with the University of Michigan, was selected by Marquis Who's Who for a prominent feature in the Michigan regional edition of The New Yorker.

Leveraging five decades of professional excellence, Dr. Ueda is well-regarded as an expert in neurochemistry, having lent his breadth of knowledge to the University of Michigan in several key roles. Joining the University of Michigan in 1978, he served as an assistant professor in the department of pharmacology while concurrently working as an assistant research scientist at the university's Mental Health Research Institute until departing from both positions in 1981. From there, Dr. Ueda was promoted to associate professor of pharmacology and associate research scientist, where he remained for eight years.

Following these appointments, Dr. Ueda advanced to the position of full professor of pharmacology at the university, where he thrived from 1989 until being recognized as a professor emeritus of pharmacology in 2016. Simultaneously, he was a senior research scientist at the university's Mental Health Research Institute and a research professor at the University of Michigan's Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute (now the Michigan Neuroscience Institute). Upon his retirement in 2016, he was also named a research professor emeritus.

While serving in academia, Dr. Ueda maintained responsibility for carefully selecting new faculty members and students in the university's various departments and reviewing grants on behalf of the National Science Foundation between 1978 and 1996. Likewise, he served as a subcommittee member of the neurological sciences study section of the National Institutes of Health from 1987 to 1991. Congruent with his primary appointments, Dr. Ueda has shared his wealth of expertise with professional journals and academic textbooks.

Among his many career achievements, Dr. Ueda is particularly gratified by the publication of a groundbreaking article he authored in 1973, which outlined his discovery of a glutamate-specific uptake system in the synaptic vesicles of brain and spinal cord neurons, as well as the discovery, purification and characterization of Protein I (now Synapsin I) in 1973 and 1977. In light of his innovative research, the neuroscience community has since accepted glutamate as the primary excitatory transmitter in the central nervous system. In the coming years, Dr. Ueda endeavors to continue publishing his research to advance innovations in neurochemistry.

EDUCATION HIGHLIGHTS
Hailing from Osaka, Japan (Kitano High School), Dr. Ueda pursued higher education at Kyoto University and earned a Bachelor of Science in chemistry in 1966. Thereafter, he immigrated to the United States to serve as a teaching fellow in biological chemistry at the University of Michigan. In 1971, he graduated from the University of Michigan with a Doctor of Philosophy (under mentor Professor Minor J. Coon) in biological chemistry, followed by service as a postdoctoral associate, a National Institute of Mental Health postdoctoral fellow and a research associate (all with Professor Paul Greengard) in pharmacology at Yale University from 1971 to 1978.

AWARD HIGHLIGHTS
Bestowed with numerous accolades, Dr. Ueda was selected for the Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award by the National Institutes of Health in 1988, a seven-year research grant that recognizes exceptional achievements in neuroscience. He also won the Senior Research Scientist Lectureship Award from the University of Michigan in 1994.

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