Eric Kandel, M.D.

Professor, Columbia University

SFARI Investigator Website

Eric Kandel is Kavli Professor and director of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science at Columbia University, a senior investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and professor of neuroscience at Columbia University.

Funded Projects

Autism-linked TBR1 gene in learning-related synaptic plasticity

Awarded: 2013
Award Type: Explorer

Role of neurexin in the amygdala and associated fear memory

Awarded: 2011
Award Type: Research

Neurexin-neuroligin interaction in learning and memory

Awarded: 2010
Award Type: Research

SFARI Funded Publications

Neurexin-neuroligin transsynaptic interaction mediates learning-related synaptic remodeling and long-term facilitation in aplysia. Choi Y., Li H-L., Kassabov S.R., Jin I., Puthanveettil S.V., Karl K.A., Lu Y., Kim J-H., Bailey C.H., Kandel E.

A presynaptic role for FMRP during protein synthesis-dependent long-term plasticity in Aplysia. Till S.M., Li H.L., Miniaci M.C., Kandel E., Choi Y.