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Robert F. Margolskee, M.D., Ph.D.

Robert F. Margolskee

Dr. Margolskee is Professor of Physiology and Biophysics and of Pharmacology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. His undergraduate work was in biochemistry and molecular biology at Harvard College. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he did his graduate studies with Daniel Nathans. He conducted postdoctoral research in Paul Berg's laboratory at Stanford University.



RESEARCH ABSTRACT SUMMARY:

Robert Margolskee's laboratory is using molecular, transgenic, and structural techniques to study the peripheral and central mechanisms of taste transduction and coding and to determine how these pathways and circuits regulate gustatory behaviors in vivo.

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HHMI ALUMNI INVESTIGATOR
1997– 2005
Mount Sinai School of Medicine


Research Abstract
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The Molecular Mechanisms of Taste

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