It looks like Tonegawa stepped down as head of MIT's Picower Institute after the kerfuffle over his emails to Alla Karpova, who was offered a job at MIT's McGovern Institute. Read the article in today's Boston Globe: MIT neuroscience center head quits.
On the one hand those emails, although PC on the surface, were pretty nasty between the lines.
On the other hand I've heard that despite his public persona, he's really a nice guy (according to his lab members).
[HT: Zuska.]
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