Monell Center Researchers Show that Food Protein Can Eliminate Pungency and Bitterness of Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Findings encourage increased consumption of healthy olive oil for culinary purposes...
23 June, 2021
Press Releases
Tug-of-War Receptors Controlling Sour Taste Detection in Fruit Flies Sheds Light on Human Taste Biology
PHILADELPHIA – Sour taste does not have the nearly universal appeal that sweet taste does. Slightly sour foods or drinks such as yogurt and lemon juice are yummy to many, but such highly sour foods as spoiled milk are yucky, even dangerous. Like humans, many...
17 June, 2021
Monell Center Scientists Find that Insulin is Necessary for Repairing Olfactory Neurons: Findings Point to Possible Treatment for Smell Loss
PHILADELPHIA (May 17, 2021) – Researchers have known for some time that insulin plays a vital role in regeneration and growth in some types of neurons that relay environmental sensory information to our brains, such as sight. However, they know relatively little about the role...
17 May, 2021
Monell Scientist Honored for Career Achievement in Chemosensory Research
Monell Chemical Senses Center biopsychologist Julie A. Mennella, PhD, has been recognized by the Association for Chemoreception Sciences with the 2020 Max Mozell Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Chemical Senses and will present a lecture at its virtual annual meeting on 22 April 2021....
20 April, 2021
Monell Center Receives Kleberg Foundation Grant to Discriminate Bacterial and Viral Immune Responses to Reduce Antibiotic Use
PHILADELPHIA, January 18, 2021 - According to the Centers for Disease Control, nearly three million people will acquire an antibiotic-resistant infection each year in the United States. Doctors are currently overprescribing antibiotics for feverish individuals during the pandemic, despite widespread knowledge that COVID-19 is caused...
18 January, 2021
Monell Center/Temple University Team Receive NIH Funding for Non-traditional Technologies to Fight COVID-19
PHILADELPHIA, December 28, 2020 – A Monell Chemical Senses Center and Temple University team recently became part of a new, multi-institute National Institute of Health (NIH)-funded initiative called the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostic Radical program (RADx). The NIH invested $107 million at 43 institutions across...
28 December, 2020
Yali Zhang Named Morley R. Kare Research Fellow for 2020 to 2022
New Kare research fellow Yali Zhang, PhD studies how animals sense their complex food environment, including food taste and texture....
13 October, 2020
Better Measures Reveal More COVID-19 Smell Loss
Research led by Monell finds direct methods vs, self-report show 75% of people with COVID-19 lose their sense of smell....
12 October, 2020
Perceiving the Flavor of Fat: A Monell Center Twins Study
New research, led by the Monell Chemical Senses Center, has now found that liking of fatty food is more complex than its fat content alone – it could also be related to inborn genetic traits of the consumer related to fat perception....
13 July, 2020
Monell Scientist Receives 2020 Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neuroscience
Amber Alhadeff, PhD, the newest faculty member at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, has been awarded a 2020 Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neurosciences, totaling $225,000 over three years....
01 July, 2020
Monell Scientists Collaborate with the GCCR to Launch Tool for Tracking COVID-19 Smell, Taste Loss
Smell and taste loss are useful predictors of COVID-19, but it can be difficult to become aware of changes in these senses. With the smell-and-taste-check tool from the Global Consortium for Chemosensory Researchers (GCCR), people can track the acuity of their senses of smell and...
24 June, 2020
DiscoveryBioMed and Monell Chemical Senses Center Awarded $1.68 Million Small Business Grant
In a continuation of their industry-academic partnership, DiscoveryBioMed and the Monell Center have been awarded nearly $1.7 million over the next two years by the National Institutes of Health’s Small Business Technology Transfer Research program to find bitter taste blockers to improve medication compliance. ...
29 April, 2020