Robert Margolskee

Robert Margolskee
Residence	Pennsylvania
Alma mater	Harvard University
Known for	Mammalian taste transduction
Awards	IFF Award, Monell Mastertaste-Manheimer Award
Scientific career
Fields	Biologist, Molecular Geneticist
Institutions	Monell Chemical Senses Center
Doctoral advisor	Daniel Nathans

Robert F. Margolskee is an American academic. He is the Director of the Monell Chemical Senses Center and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Margolskee is also the Scientific Founder of Redpoint Bio. Margolskee has been a pioneer in the application of molecular biology and transgenic animal models to the study of taste transduction and chemosensation. He has made numerous seminal discoveries in the taste field, including the identification and molecular cloning of taste specific receptors, G proteins, channels and other taste signal transduction elements.

Margolskee received his A.B. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Harvard University in Massachusetts. He received his MD-PhD in Molecular Genetics from Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, where he studied with the late Nobel laureate Daniel Nathans. He carried out postdoctoral studies in Biochemistry at Stanford University with Nobel laureate Paul Berg.

Margolskee’s first faculty appointment was in Neuroscience at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, where he also held an adjunct appointment in the Department of Biological Sciences of Columbia University. In 1996, Margolskee joined the faculty of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. In 2009, he joined the faculty at the Monell Center. His work has been published in Nature, Science, Nature Neuroscience, and Scientific American.

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