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A conversation with Nobel Prize-winner Richard Axel
with Richard Axel on Dec 8, 2004
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with Richard Axel on Dec 8, 2004
Richard Axel is an American scientist. His work on the olfactory system won him and Linda B. Buck, a former post-doctoral scientist in his research group, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2004.
Axel’s primary research interest is on how the brain interprets the sense of smell, specifically mapping the parts of the brain that are sensitive to specific olfactory receptors. He holds the titles of University Professor at Columbia University, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and of Pathology at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
