Contact: Karen Kreeger, kkreeger@monell.org (PHILADELPHIA) December 21, 2022. The Monell Chemical Senses Center has received $1,000,000 in Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program funds for the immediate creation of quality jobs for Pennsylvanians. The program – Monell’s first such grant – finances projects that result in employment...
The Board of Directors of the Monell Chemical Senses Center has appointed Nancy E. Rawson, PhD, Acting Director and President. Her new role was effective July 1, 2022, and she has assumed the full duties of the Director's office....
The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today the newest class of the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences....
The Monell Chemical Senses Center, in collaboration with the Smell and Taste Association of North America (STANA) and Jefferson Health, is conducting a survey of people who have experienced smell and/or taste dysfunction, as well as their caregivers and family members. ...
The large meta-analysis advances our understanding of the underrated symptom...
Project is relevant to COVID-induced cases, as well as other taste and smell disorders...
55 years after its initial contribution, the Monell Foundation makes a transformational investment....
Sudden smell and taste loss has become a well-known symptom of COVID-19. However, some people have also woken up to discover that their usual beloved coffee odor has been distorted and now smells like garbage or rotting meat, a condition known as parosmia. Others smell...
Amber L. Alhadeff, PhD, an assistant member at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, has been awarded the 2021 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology for her research on how gut-brain connections in the brain influence eating behavior....
A study led by the Monell Chemical Senses Center, published this month in PLOS ONE, identifies a new human sensory ability to detect sugars in the mouth....
(PHILADELPHIA) Amber L. Alhadeff, PhD, an Assistant Member at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, is among the 106 grant recipients of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) High-Risk, High-Reward Research program for 2021. [caption id="attachment_4217" align="alignright" width="400"] Amber Alhadeff, PhD[/caption]Specifically, Alhadeff received an NIH Director’s New...
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...