Howard Hughes Medical Investigators

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 94. Chapters: Allan C. Spradling, Angelika Amon, Arthur L. Horwich, Arul Chinnaiyan, Atul Butte, Axel T. Brunger, Barbara J. Meyer, Bert Vogelstein, Beth Levine (physician), Bonnie Bassler, Brian Druker, Brian Kobilka, Bruce Beutler, Bruce Lahn, Carla J. Shatz, Carlos Bustamante, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Catherine Dulac, Charles Sawyers, Charles Zuker, Cornelia Bargmann, Craig Mello, Dan Littman, David Agard, David Baker (biochemist), David Bartel, David C. Page, David Eisenberg, David Ginty, David Haussler, David J. Anderson, Dorothee Kern, Douglas A. Melton, Elaine Fuchs, Erich Jarvis, Eric F. Wieschaus, Eric Kandel, Eva Nogales, Frederick Alt, George Q. Daley, Geraldine Seydoux, Gerald M. Rubin, Gideon Dreyfuss, Graham C. Walker, Günter Blobel, H. Robert Horvitz, Huda Zoghbi, J. Andrew McCammon, Jack W. Szostak, James Collins (Boston University), James P. Allison, Jennifer Doudna, Jeremy Nathans, Joan A. Steitz, Johann Deisenhofer, John Kappler, John Kuriyan, Jonathan K. Pritchard, Joseph DeRisi, Joseph Takahashi, Jo Handelsman, Julie Theriot, Karl Deisseroth, Kevin Campbell (scientist), Kristi Anseth, Lawrence S.B. Goldstein, Leslie B. Vosshall, Linda B. Buck, Linda Hsieh-Wilson, Mario Capecchi, Mark Schnitzer, Matthew P. Scott, Michael Eisen, Michael Elowitz, Michael Marletta, Nancy Andrews (biologist), Natalie Ahn, Pamela J. Bjorkman, Pascale Cossart, Patrick O. Brown, Paul Ahlquist, Paul L. Modrich, Peter Cresswell, Peter Walter, Philippa Marrack, Philip A. Beachy, Pietro De Camilli, Randy Schekman, Richard Axel, Richard Flavell, Richard H. Ebright, Richard Hynes, Richard Losick, Richard Scheller, Richard W. Aldrich, Robert B. Darnell, Robert F. Siliciano, Robert Lefkowitz, Robert Tjian, Roderick MacKinnon, Ronald Breaker, Ronald M. Evans, Ronald Vale, Ruslan Medzhitov, Sangeeta N. Bhatia, Sankar Ghosh, Scott Strobel, Sean B. Carroll, Sean J. Morrison, Sebastian Seung, Sharon R. Long, Stanley Fields (biologist), Stephen Elledge, Stuart Schreiber, Susan Ackerman, Susan Lindquist, Susan R. Wessler, Susumu Tonegawa, Tania A. Baker, Terry Sejnowski, Thomas A. Steitz, Thomas C. Südhof, Thomas Cech, Thomas Jessell, Thomas Tuschl, Todd Golub, Tom Rapoport, Tyler Jacks, Wayne Hendrickson, William Newsome, Xiaowei Zhuang, Yuet Wai Kan, Zhijian James Chen. Excerpt: Eric Richard Kandel (born November 7, 1929) is an American neuropsychiatrist who was a recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons. He shared the prize with Arvid Carlsson and Paul Greengard. Kandel, who had studied psychoanalysis, wanted to understand how memory works. His mentor, Harry Grundfest, said, "If you want to understand the brain you're going to have to take a reductionist approach, one cell at a time." So he studied the neural system of a simple animal, Aplysia, a sea slug with very large nerve cells. Kandel is a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. He is a Senior Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He was also the founding director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, which is now the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia University. Kandel authored In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind (WW Norton), which chronicles his life and research. The book was awarded the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Award for Science and Technology. Kandel was born i...