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Dr. Kandel is the University Professor at the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior of Columbia University's College of Physicians & Surgeons.
Born in Vienna, Austria, he graduated from Harvard College, where he majored in history and literature. He received his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine and completed postdoctoral training with Wade Marshall in the Laboratory of Neurophysiology at National Institutes of Health; residency training in psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School; and a postdoctoral fellowship with Ladislav Tauc at the Institut Marey in Paris.
Dr. Kandel held faculty positions at Harvard Medical School and New York University School of Medicine before going to Columbia University, where he was the founding director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and counts among his many honors the Lasker Award, the Gairdner Award, the Harvey Prize, the National Medal of Science, the Wolf Prize, the 2000 A.H. Heineken Prize for medicine from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.