Robert Margolskee

Who is Robert Margolskee?

Robert F. Margolskee, MD, PhD, is an American academic. He is Associate Director of the Monell Chemical Senses Center, co-Director of Monell’s Postdoctoral Training Program and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Margolskee is also the Scientific Founder of Redpoint Bio. Dr. Margolskee has been a pioneer in the application of molecular biology and transgenic animal models to the study of taste transduction and chemosensation. He has made numerous seminal discoveries in the taste field, including the identification and molecular cloning of taste specific receptors, G proteins, channels and other taste signal transduction elements.