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Transcript from an interview with Paul Greengard - NobelPrize.org
Publish Date
June 13, 2008
Interviewees
Paul Greengard
Interviewers
Adam Smith
Publisher
Nobel Foundation
Topics
Challenges faced in understanding chemical neurotransmission in the brain
Creation of the Pearl Meister Greengard Award to recognize outstanding women in biomedical research
Development of new drug targets in pharmacology
His introduction to experimental work during World War II
Impact of funding on scientific research
Importance of interdisciplinary research in neuroscience
Paul Greengard's work on unravelling the pathways of signalling in the nervous system
Role of women in science and discrimination in scientific fields
Significance of second messenger systems in the brain
Transition from physics and mathematics to the study of biological systems
People Mentioned
Alan Hodgkin
Arvid Carlsson
Dale
Earl Sutherland
Ed Krebs
Eric Kandel
Fischer
Helen Thomas
Huxley
Loewi
Paul Nurse
Sandra Day O'Connor
Torsten Wiesel
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Places Mentioned
Geigy Pharmaceuticals
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Moccollum Pratt Institute
Novartis
Stockholm
University of Pennsylvania
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