Eric Kandel is one of the world's most distinguished neuroscientists, and he has dedicated his life to understanding how the nervous system works. He is a Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, where he has directed the Kavli Institute for Brain Science since 1994. A Fellow of Rockefeller University (1968-1972), he served as the Chair of the Department of Physiology at Rockefeller (1972–1978) before moving to Columbia University. He also held visiting appointments at the Universities of California, Harvard, and Rutgers
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At Columbia, Dr. Kandel established the Laboratory of Molecular Neurophysiology to explore how individual nerve cells communicate with each other, which was followed by the establishment of the Center for Neural Science in 1990. At Columbia, he also directed the development of the first course in Neuroscience offered by an American university.