Richard Axel, Columbia University
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Institute for Brain Science
Professor
New York City, New York
ra27@columbia.edu
Office:
(212) 305-6915
Bio/Research
Axel, along with former Columbia postdoctoral fellow Linda Buck, won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering “odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system.” Through a series of pioneering studies, they clarified how the human olfactory system works by prov...
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Bio/Research
Axel, along with former Columbia postdoctoral fellow Linda Buck, won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering “odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system.” Through a series of pioneering studies, they clarified how the human olfactory system works by proving that the nose is able to distinguish more than 10,000 smells. Earlier in his career, he helped to develop a set of tools to insert foreign genetic material into mammalian cells, which led to advances in the treatment of breast cancer, kidney failure, cystic fibrosis and infertility.
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