Pioneering Molecular Biologist Robert Margolskee Joins Monell Faculty
Robert F. Margolskee, M.D., Ph.D., a world-renowned expert on the molecular mechanisms of taste, has joined the faculty of the Monell Center.
Monell Scientists Explain Taste Genetics on NOVA ScienceNOW
Monell scientists Danielle Reed, Julie Mennella and Robert Margolskee were featured in a segment on the genetics of taste perception on the July 21 episode of the award-winning PBS series NOVA ScienceNOW.
Visit the ScienceNOW website to view the segment and for an animated tour of the science of taste narrated by Reed, who also answers selected questions online in an Ask The Expert feature.
Paul Breslin Receives Gates Foundation Grant
Monell scientist Paul A. S. Breslin has been awarded a Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will support an innovative global health research project “Taste-Guided Behavior on Mosquitoes Helps Eradicate Malaria.”
2009 Moskowitz Jacobs Award to Lundström
Monell scientist Johan Lundström is the 2009 recipient of the Moskowitz Jacobs Award for Research Excellence in the Psychophysics of Taste and Smell.
Monell's innovative research and outstanding scientists are recognized around the world.
“Monell is a unique place that fosters truly innovative research on taste and smell - and much more. Monell outstandingly combines the fields of molecular biology, genetics, neurophysiology and psychology to address important questions about critical issues related to human health and well-being.”
ALAN LESHNER, PhD
Chief Executive Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Executive Publisher, Science
