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Faculty
Gerald Edelman
Chairman
Professor
Department of Neurobiology
TSRI - 1992
Joint Appointments Skaggs
Education
M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1954
Ph.D., The Rockefeller University, 1960
Awards & Activities
The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1972;
The Warren Triennial Prize, Massachusetts General Hopital, Boston, Massachusetts, 1992;
Dottore "ad honorem" in Scienze Biologiche, Univeristy of Bologna, Italy, 1998;
Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic, 1999;
C.U. Ariens-Kappers Medal, Netherlands Institute for Brain Research, 1999;
University of Minnesota, Honoris Causa, 2000;
La Medaille de la Ville de Paris (Echelon Vermeil), 2002;
Santiago Grisolia Chair Prize, Valencia, Spain, 2003
Research Focus
Studies of cell-cell interactions during embryonic development and of cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) and their role in neural development and plasticity. Studies of the molecular genetics of connectional defects in the nervous system. Studies of transcriptional regulation and translational control in eukaryotic cells. Theoretical work on the organization of higher brain functions and on the construction of non-von Neumann machines and brain-based devices.
Selected References
Edelman, G.M., Jones, F.S. (1998) Gene Regulation of Cell Adhesion: A Key Step in Neural Morphogenesis. Bran Res. Reviews, 26:337-352.
Edelman, G.M., Gally, J.A. (2001) Degeneracy and Complexity in Biological Systems. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 98:13763-13768.
Mauro, V.P., Edelman, G.M. (2002) The ribosome filter hypothesis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 99:12031-12036.
Vanderklish, P.W., Edelman, G.M. (2005) Differential translation and fragile X syndrome. Genes, Brain Behav., 4:360-384.
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