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What is a cell biologist with a “green thumb” for growing intestinal organoids doing working at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, the oldest free-standing research institute for study of taste and smell? Since 2014, Monell Associate Member Peihua Jiang, PhD has been researching taste-like tuft cells...

(PHILADELPHIA) - The Monell Chemical Senses Center announced today that its current Director and President Robert F. Margolskee, MD, PhD, will be stepping down as Director by June 30th, 2022, after which he will remain as a part-time faculty member to complete several research projects...

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....

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....