Eric R. Kandel, M.D.
Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, Founding Director of Kavli Institute for Brain Science, Professor Emeritus and Founding Codirector of the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute
Eric R. Kandel, M.D. is a University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, Founding Director of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science and a Professor Emeritus and Founding Codirector of the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Insitute. A graduate of Harvard College and New York University School of Medicine, Kandel trained in Neurobiology at the National Institute of Health and in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He joined the faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in 1974 as the founding director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior.
Eric Kandel’s research is concerned with the molecular mechanisms of memory storage in sea slugs and mice. More recently, he has studied animal models in mice of memory disorders and mental illness. Kandel has received eighteen honorary degrees, is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences as well as the National Science Academies of Germany and France. He has been recognized with the Albert Lasker Award, the Heineken Award of the Netherlands, the Gairdner Award of Canada, the Wolf Prize of Israel, the National Medal of Science USA and the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2000.