Richard Axel (born July 2, 1946) is an American molecular biologist and university professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia University and investigator at the Howard Hughes …

Richard Axel is University Professor and professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, of neuroscience, and of pathology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Richard Axel is a Nobel laureate, a University Professor, an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Columbia University Medical Center and a codirector of Columbia’s …

Richard Axel is an American scientist who, with Linda B. Buck, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2004 for pioneering research on the olfactory system. Axel received an A.B. …

Richard Scheller exploited the techniques of recombinant DNA to identify a family of genes encoding a set of related neuropeptides whose coordinated release is likely to govern the fixed …

Led by Daphna Shohamy, PhD, and Nobel laureate Richard Axel, MD, we study critical aspects of the mind and brain, gaining insights that promise to benefit people and societies everywhere. …

Richard Axel Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004 Born: 2 July 1946, New York, NY, USA Affiliation at the time of the award: Columbia University, New York, NY, USA Prize motivation: …

My current work centers on how the recognition of odors is translated into an internal representation of sensory quality in the brain and how this representation leads to meaningful …

We are studying how the diversity and specificity of olfactory perception is accomplished. Our analysis of the patterns of expression of the odorant receptor genes, coupled with earlier …

My studies on the logic of the sense of smell revealed over a thousand genes involved in the recognition of odors and provided insight into how genes shape our perception of the sensory …