Eric R. Kandel

KANDEL, ERIC R.
erk5@columbia.edu

Senior Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University Professor of Physiology and Psychiatry at the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior of the Columbia University

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2000)
Lasker Award
Harvey Prize
National Medal of Science
Gairdner Award

Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Research interests : Cell and Molecular Mechanisms of Associative and Non-Associative Learning. Through studies of Aplysia and mutant mice, Eric Kandel is elucidating the genes and molecular circuits that control learning and memory.