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  • A Common Treatment for a Rare Disease Nutritionally, Children Are Not Mini-Adults Mark your calendars for Monell’s inaugural Celebration of Science One Step Closer to Being Offered Smell & Taste Testing in Your Doctor’s Office The Stephen Manheimer Scholarship in Flavor Science Click here for......

  • Bad Bitterness Made Better The Many Lives of Ibuprofen Keeping Fragrant Forests in our Future East Meets West: A “Shared Vision” Chemosensory Science on Capitol Hill Click here for the full newsletter....

  • Olive Tree Cousin Source of Anti-inflammatory Compounds Can Memory Influence What, How Much We Eat? Tapping the Body’s Energy-saving Toolkit An East-West Meeting of the Minds Breakthrough Consortium for Olfactory Health Monell’s New Face of Philanthropy and Engagement Click here for the full newsletter....

  • Connections: Our 2024 Annual Report Fall Corporate Partners Meeting Monell Science Apprenticeship Program: Applications Open! Dinner en White Coat to Science After Hours Congratulations to Drs. Amber Alhadeff and Arashdeep Singh! Click here for the full newsletter....

  • Suppressing Food Intake Without Causing Nausea SCENTinel® and Smell Disorders, Four Years On Bitter Barriers to Treatment Including Patient Perspectives in Shaping Research Monell Science Apprenticeship Program, Just One More Week! Monell in the Movies Click here for the full newsletter....

  • Diabetes Drug Makes Bitter Taste Take a Back Seat Sweet Taste Receptor + Glucose Metabolism = Better Diabetes Management A Big Welcome to New Faculty Member and Sensory Scientist Juyun Lim Sharing Our Love for the Chemical Senses Home Smell Testing vs. Lab Smell Testing:......

  • All in the Name of Science The Scents of Spring Sensory Nutrition and Disease In the Top 10! Constant Craving Making Memories Click here for the full newsletter....

  • Jumping right in: Monell Executive Director at Venture Café How Trigeminal Nerve Signals Are Tuning the Nose Sweetened Medicine: A Little Too Sweet? The Mechanisms Behind Bitter Taste Distortions And more… Click here for the full newsletter....

  • Monell Science Apprenticeship Program, 2023 Edition Explaining Taste Mysteries, Associate Director Danielle Reed at the American Philosophical Society COVID-19 Taste Loss, an International Study The Epigenetics Behind Bitter Taste Distortion And more… Click here for the full newsletter....

  • A series of events to promote #SmellAndTasteTestingForAll. PA State Rep. Krajewski: Monell Center Growth Benefits West Philadelphia. From the Basics of Taste to Tasting Basics: A newly discovered taste receptor allows fruit flies to taste alkaline foods. Click here to download the full newsletter....

  • SCENTinel 1.1: the second iteration of Monell’s rapid smell test discriminates between smell loss and smell distortions STANA advocates for universal smell and taste testing: sign the petition here! Monell and Rowan University: at the Philadelphia Flower Show. Monell and the Fragrance Foundation: the future......

  • Mehmet Hakan Ozdener, MD, PhD, leads the recent development of a new method to reprogram human taste cells into neuron-like cells. Amber Alhadeff, PhD, joins an outstanding cohort of early-career scientists honored by the New York Stem Cell Foundation. Gary Beauchamp, PhD, along with two......

  • Synthetic Sensory Physiology, a Martin Meyerson Lecture by Dr. Dirk Trauner. Kevin Bolding, PhD, and Guillaume de Lartigue, PhD bring tools that will move our research forward in new, creative ways! Meet Robert Pellegrino, PhD. His research and background bring together food science, neuroscience, psychophysics,......

  • What makes a molecule smell, and why are noses built the way they are? Welcoming our Science Apprenticeship 2022 cohort, and celebrating fifty years of Gary Beauchamp’s service and research. Amber Alhadeff Honored by Pew Trusts, and Danielle Reed writes: Chemosensory Science Under the Shadow......

  • The Complicated World of Smell: fascinating and puzzling findings from the Mainland Lab. Finding a Sweet Spot in Flavor, Food Research, how Dr. May Cheung is helping improve the research methods of nutritionists and food scientists. Sour: The Approach-Avoid Taste. The True Prevalence of COVID-19......