The Benedetti-Pichler Award

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 27 KB
• Volume: 61
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0026-265X
• DOI: 10.1006/mchj.1999.1727

✦ Synopsis

His current research emphasizes the development and implementation of new analytical instrumentation and methodology and focuses on the identification and determination of neurotransmitters and neuropeptides, using the marine snail Aplysia as a model system. Much of his research group's work involves scaling a variety of methods to the nanoliter level to allow the identification and quantitation of neuroactive compounds from single cells and their microenvironments. Over the past 7 years, he has published more than 60 reviewed journal articles and eight book chapters, received six patents, given more than 100 invited presentations, and received over three million dollars of research funding. He has received the Dreyfus Teacher Scholar and New Faculty awards and an NSF Young Investigator Award, has been a Searle Scholar, Sloan Fellow, and Packard Fellow, and has received the ACS Findeis Award.

His group has developed new microseparation methods based on capillary electrophoresis and chromatography and has demonstrated unique detection modes such as wavelength-resolved fluorescence and radiochemical detection. Among those is a postcolumn radionuclide detection system for examining the biologically important radionuclides including 35 S and 3 H labeled