Jack L. Feldman

Jack L. Feldman is an American neuroscientist and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He discovered and named the pre-Bötzinger complex^[1], an area in the brain stem that is responsible for controlling breathing. He was the recipient of the Hodgkin Huxley Katz Prize in 2016.

Early Life

Dr. Feldman received his Bachelor's degree in physics from the Polytechnic Institute of NY in 1968, and a PhD in physics from the University of Chicago. His PhD focused breathing and respiratory networks from a theoretical perspective.^[2] He went on to perform experimental neuroscience as a postdoc in Paris with Dr. Gauthier and a second postdoc with Dr. Mort Cohen in New York. In 1978, he got his first academic appointment as assistant professor at Northwestern in Chicago, where he went through the ranks to full professor. In 1986, he moved to UCLA, where he is Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology.^[2]

Research

Awards and Recognition

Research Career Development Award, NIH, 1979-1984
Swedish Medical Research Council Visiting Scientist Fellowship, 1982-1983
Guest Professor, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, FRG, 1989
Christian Anfinsen Lecturer, NIH, 1989
MERIT Award, NIH, 1990
Julius H. Comroe Jr. Distinguished Lectureship, American Physiological Society, 1995
Geoffrey S. Dawes Lecture, Fetal and Neonatal Physiological Society, 1998
Society for Neuroscience Special Lecturer, 2002
16^th Annual HW Magoun Lecture, Brain Research Institute UCLA, 2005
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Visiting Neuroscientist Lecturer, U. Toronto, 2006
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2009
Society for Neuroscience Special Lecturer, 2016
Hodgkin Huxley Katz Prize, The Physiological Society 2016
Outstanding Investigator Award (R35) NHLBI, NIH 2017
Neil S. Cherniack Lecturer, Case Western Reserve University, March 2018
Faculty Research Lecture, UCLA, Oct 2018

References

^ Smith, J. C.; Ellenberger, H. H.; Ballanyi, K.; Richter, D. W.; Feldman, J. L. (1991-11-01). "Pre-Bötzinger complex: a brainstem region that may generate respiratory rhythm in mammals". Science (New York, N.Y.). 254 (5032): 726–729. doi:10.1126/science.1683005. ISSN 0036-8075. PMC 3209964. PMID 1683005.
^ ^a ^b Grillner, Sten (2011-01-01), Gossard, Jean Pierre; Dubuc, Réjean; Kolta, Arlette (eds.), "Chapter 13 - On walking, chewing, and breathing—A tribute to Serge, Jim, and Jack", Progress in Brain Research, Breathe, Walk and Chew: The Neural Challenge: Part II, vol. 188, Elsevier, pp. 199–211, retrieved 2020-01-19

[1] Smith, J. C.; Ellenberger, H. H.; Ballanyi, K.; Richter, D. W.; Feldman, J. L. (1991-11-01). "Pre-Bötzinger complex: a brainstem region that may generate respiratory rhythm in mammals". Science (New York, N.Y.). 254 (5032): 726–729. doi:10.1126/science.1683005. ISSN 0036-8075. PMC 3209964. PMID 1683005.

[:0-2] Grillner, Sten (2011-01-01), Gossard, Jean Pierre; Dubuc, Réjean; Kolta, Arlette (eds.), "Chapter 13 - On walking, chewing, and breathing—A tribute to Serge, Jim, and Jack", Progress in Brain Research, Breathe, Walk and Chew: The Neural Challenge: Part II, vol. 188, Elsevier, pp. 199–211, retrieved 2020-01-19

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