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AROUND THE QUADS
Kandel is Columbia's 61st Nobel Laureate

University Professor Eric Kandel has been awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize for Medicine, sharing the honor with Arvid Carlsson of the University of Goteborg, Sweden, and Paul Greengard of The Rockefeller University in New York. The Swedish Academy, which presents the prizes, announced the award in October, citing all three men for their contributions to the field of neuroscience.

Kandel's research focuses on Aplysia, a sea slug with relatively few nerve cells and clearly delineated behavioral circuitry. His work, which has demonstrated ways in which nerve cells alter their responsiveness to chemical signals to produce a coordinated change in behavior, has been essential to current understanding of the biological basis of behavior and the processes of learning and memory. His research is basic to understanding defects in the brain's operation that are involved in major psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, and in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

Kandel is the 61st Nobel laureate associated with Columbia, and the fourth in the last five years. Robert Mundell, C. Lowell Harriss Professor of Economics, received the prize for economics in 1999, Professor Horst Stormer received the prize for physics in 1998, and the late professor William S. Vickrey won the prize for economics in 1996.

A native of Vienna, Kandel fled Nazi-occupied Austria with his family in 1939. He studied at Harvard and NYU Medical School and began his research career at the National Institute of Mental Health, where he studied mammalian brain neurophysiology. Kandel came to Columbia in the 1975 as director of the new Center for Neurobiology and Behavior; he is now a Howard Hughes Medical Institute senior investigator. A winner of the National Medal of Science, Kandel is a member of both the National Academy of Science and the American Philosophical Society.

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