Leslie B. Vosshall
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Leslie Vosshall is an American neurobiologist who is mostly known for her research in the olfaction. She received her Ph.D. from Rockefeller University in 1993 and went onto do her postdoctoral training with Nobel laureate, Richard Axel. She then came back to Rockefeller University as assistant professor in 2000, where she is currently the Chemers Family Associate Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior.[1] Dr. Vosshall has won numerous awards [1]. In 2001, she was named a Beckman Foundation Young Investigator and received a McKnight Neuroscience Scholar Award and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. In 2002, she was named a John Merck Fund Fellow and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and in 2008, she became one of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's investigators.[1]
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- ^ a b c Bonner, Joseph (2008-06-02). "The Rockefeller University - Newswire: Two Rockefeller faculty become new HHMI investigators". Retrieved 2009-06-10.
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