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˙BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Kandel is also University Professor at the Center for Neurobiology
and Behavior of Columbia University College of Physicians and
Surgeons. Born in Vienna, Austria, he graduated from Harvard College,
where he majored in history and literature. He received his medical
degree from New York University School of Medicine. He completed
postdoctoral training with Wade Marshall in the Laboratory of
Neurophysiology at the National Institutes of Health; residency
training in psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center,
Harvard Medical School; and a postdoctoral fellowship with Ladislav
Tauc at the Institut Marey in Paris. Dr. Kandel held faculty positions
at Harvard Medical School and New York University School of Medicine
before coming to Columbia, where he was the founding director of the
Center for Neurobiology and Behavior. He is a member of the National
Academy of Sciences and counts among his many honors the Lasker Award,
the Gairdner Award, the Harvey Prize, the National Medal of Science,
the Wolf Prize, the 2000 A.H. Heineken Prize for medicine from the
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the 2000 Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
˙Curriculum Vitae
Eric R. Kandel,
born November 7, 1929 in Vienna, Austria. American citizen |
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Center for Neurobiology
and Behavior, Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York,
NY 10032, USA |
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Academic Education and Appointments |
1956 |
MD, New York University
School of Medicine |
1960-64 |
Resident in Psychiatry,
Harvard Medical School, Boston |
1964-65 |
Staff Psychiatrist,
Harvard Medical School, Boston |
1965-74 |
Associate Professor, Dept
of Physiology and Psychiatry, New York University |
1974- |
Professor, Dept of
Physiology and Psychiatry, Columbia University |
1992- |
Professor, Dept of
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University |
1974-83 |
Director, Center for
Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University |
1983- |
University Professor,
Columbia Univeristy |
1984- |
Senior Investigator,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University |
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Awards |
1959 |
Henry L Moses Research
Award, Montefiore Hospital |
1977 |
Lester N Hofheimer Prize
for Research |
1977 |
Lucy G Moses Prize for
Research in Basic Neurology |
1979 |
Solomon A Berson Medical
Alumni Achievement Award |
1981 |
Karl Spencer Lashley Prize
in Neurobiology |
1982 |
The Dickson Prize in
Biology and Medicine |
1983 |
Albert Lasker Basic
Medical Research Award (shared with VB Mountcastle) |
1984 |
Lewis S Rosenstiel Award
for Distinguished Work (shared with D Koshland) |
1984 |
Howard Crosby Warren Medal |
1985 |
American Association of
Medical Colleges Award |
1987 |
Gairdner International
Award for Outstanding Achievements in Medical Science |
1988 |
National Medal of Science |
1988 |
Gold Medal for Scientific
Merit |
1989 |
Distinguished Service
Award of the American Psychiatric Association |
1989 |
Award in Basic Science,
American College of Physicians |
1989 |
Robert J and Clarie
Pasarow Foundation Award in Neuroscience |
1990 |
Diploma Internacional
Cajal |
1991 |
Bristol-Myers Squibb Award
for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research (shared
with TVM Bliss) |
1992 |
Warren Triennial Prize |
1992 |
Jean-Louis Signoret's
Prize on Memory |
1993 |
Harvey Prize |
1993 |
FO Schmitt Medal and Prize
in Neuroscience |
1995 |
Stevens Triennial Prize |
1996 |
NY Academy of Medicine
Award |
1997 |
Gerard Prize for
Outstanding Achievement in Neuroscience (Soc of Neuroscience) |
1997 |
Charles A Dana Award for
Pioneering Achievement in Health (shared with P Greengard) |
1999 |
Wolf Prize in Biology and
Medicine, Israel |
˙RESEARCH
ABSTRACT SUMMARY:
Eric Kandel's lab is studying examples of the major forms of memory
storage. The lab is studying explicit memory storage (the conscious
recall of information about people, places, and objects) in mice and
implicit memory storage (the unconscious recall of perceptual and
motor skills) in the snail Aplysia. In Aplysia, the lab
has focused on the implicit memory for sensitization, a simple form of
learned fear, and the mechanisms for achieving synapse-specific
anatomical changes. In mice, they have examined the synaptic
mechanisms contributing to memory for space, a complex form of
explicit memory storage.
˙Eric
Kandel Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine:
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Dr. Eric
Kandel |
New York, N.Y., October
9, 2000 - Eric R. Kandel, University Professor of Physiology and
Cell Biophysics, Psychiatry, Biochemistry and Molecular
Biophysics at Columbia University, shares the 2000 Nobel Prize
for Medicine with Arvid Carlsson of the University of Goteborg,
Sweden and Paul Greengard of The Rockefeller University, New
York, for their contributions to the field of neuroscience. Dr.
Kandel, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute senior investigator,
is a member of both the National Academy of Science and American
Philosophical Society and a winner of the National Medal of
Science.
Kandel's seminal work
with the sea slug Aplysia, a creature with relatively few
nerve cells and clearly delineated behavioral circuitry compared
with vertebrates, demonstrated fundamental ways in which nerve
cells alter their responsiveness to chemical signals to produce
a coordinated change in behavior. The work has been essential
not only for our understanding of the basic processes of
learning and memory, but also for highlighting many of the
cellular processes that are targets of psychoactive drugs.
Kandel's research has
been pivotal in relating three psychologically defined forms of
learning-habituation, sensitization, and classical
conditioning-to subcellular processes and intercellular
signaling. In his studies, Dr. Kandel found that simple
behaviors could be accounted for by distinctive sets of nerve
cells connected in invariant circuits. Dr. Kandel and colleagues
found that learning produces changes behavior not by altering
basic circuitry, but by adjusting the strength of particular
connections between nerve cells. Dr. Kandel and co-workers also
defined sets of genes and proteins that stabilize synaptic
connections and trigger growth of new ones. More recently,
Kandel's lab has extended this approach from simple forms of
memory in the Aplysia to more complex forms of spatial
learning in mammals.
In response to calls for
an integrated approach to understanding the biological basis of
behavior, Columbia established the Center for Neurobiology and
Behavior with Kandel as its director in 1975. The Center,
comprising faculty with appointments in the departments of
Anatomy and Cell Biology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Genetics and Development, Neurology, Pathology, Pharmacology,
Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, and Psychiatry, applies
research in these various disciplines to understanding the
cellular and molecular basis of behavior, perception, and
learning.
"This is a marvelous and
exciting moment for Eric Kandel and for Columbia University,"
says Dr. David I. Hirsh, interim dean for research, Columbia
University College of Physicians & Surgeons. "Dr. Kandel is a
superb human being whose lifelong journey to understand the
molecular basis of memory is one of the finest examples of what
can result when true scholarship and dedication are combined
with scientific brilliance."
Eric Kandel was born in
Vienna, Austria in 1929 and emigrated from the Nazi-occupied
country to the United States with his family in 1939. Educated
at Harvard University and New York University School of
Medicine, Dr. Kandel began his research career at the National
Institute of Mental Health, where he studied mammalian brain
neurophysiology with Wade Marshall. After completing his
residency in clinical psychiatry, Dr. Kandel then began work as
a staff psychiatrist at Massachusetts Mental Health Center in
Boston while continuing research and teaching at Harvard Medical
School.
In 1965, Dr. Kandel was
appointed associate professor in the Departments of Physiology
and Psychiatry at his alma mater, New York University Medical
School, and was promoted to full professor in 1968. Dr. Kandel
came to Columbia University in 1974 as Professor of Physiology
and Psychiatry, beginning his directorship of the newly formed
Center for Neurobiology and Behavior shortly thereafter. Dr.
Kandel became University Professor in 1983 and a Hughes Senior
Investigator in 1984.
Throughout his career,
Dr. Kandel has maintained an active interest in clinical
psychiatry, as well as in fostering the interchange of ideas
between diverse disciplines examining the |
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˙Books
of Eric R Kandel:
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0838577016
Author:
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H. Schwartz Thomas
M. Jessell
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Edition: Hardcover REV
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Publisher: W. H. Freeman ;
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Appleton
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Philadelphia,
PA, U.S.A.: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
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0838522475
Author:
KANDEL, ERIC R.
Publisher: UK: MCGRAW-HILL EDUCATION - EUROPE,
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0838580343
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Kandel, Eric R. Schwartz,
James H. Jessell,
Thomas M.
Publisher: East Norwalk, Connecticut, U.S.A.: Appleton & Lange,
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
0444009442
Author:
Kandel, Eric R. (editor) Schwartz,
J. H. (editor)
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A.: Elsevier Science,
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
0838522629
Author:
Eric R. Kandel
Format: Paperback
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0916110079
Author:
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0683045059
Author:
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R. ed
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Format: hardcover
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0805073450
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038715776X
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0838522688
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ISBN:
0071120009
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Publisher: UK McGraw-Hill Education - Europe .
Format: softcover
ISBN:
0824324021
Author:
Cowan W.
Maxwell Zach
W. Hall &
Eric R. Kandel Editors
Publisher: Annual Reviews Inc Palo Alto, Calif. ()
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
3860253913
Author:
Hrsg. v. Eric R. Kandel James
H. Schwartz u. Tom M. Jessell
Publisher: SPEKTRUM AKADEMISCHER VERLAG
ISBN:
0444006516
Author:
Kandel Eric
R. And Schwartz James
H.
Publisher:
New York:
Elsevier North-Holland,
Format: softcover
ISBN:
0444015620
Author:
Kandel, Eric R. Schwartz,
James H. Jessell,
Thomas M.
Publisher: Stamford, CT, U.S.A.: Appleton & Lange,
Format: hardcover
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