Roberto Malinow
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Roberto Malinow is an Argentine-born American neuroscientist at the University of California, San Diego.[2] He is currently an emeritus distinguished professor of neurobiology and neurosciences, and held the Shiley Chair in Alzheimer's Disease Research at UCSD.[3] In 2012 Dr. Malinow was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (Cellular and molecular neuroscience) [4] and in 2015 was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.[5]
February 16, 1956
- Reed College, BA Math
- New York University, MD
- UC Berkeley, PhD
- LTP mechanisms
- LTD mechanisms
- AMPA receptor dynamics
- NMDA receptor signaling
- synaptic basis of memory
- Alzheimer’s Disease mechanisms
- major depression mechanisms
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| Born | Roberto Malinow February 16, 1956 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Citizenship | United States |
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| Fields | Neuroscience |
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| Doctoral advisor | John P. Miller |
| Other academic advisors | Richard Tsien |
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| Website | malinowlab |
Malinow has a prolific scientific publication record, and his works have been cited over 25,000 times. For comparison, a scientist in the field of molecular biology & genetics has to receive approximately 1229 citations to be among the most cited 1% of life scientists in the world (see h-index by discipline). Further, he has contributed many 'high-impact' neuroscience articles, with an h-index of 72 [6](72 research publications with at least 72 citations each), regarded as "truly unique".[7]
