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October 4, 2004
HOPKINS ALUM SHARES NOBEL PRIZE
Richard Axel, M.D., a 1971 graduate of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has been named co-recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Axel, currently a professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Columbia University, shares the award with Linda Buck of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system, which is responsible for the sense of smell.
He is a member of the Advisory Board of Johns Hopkins' Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences.
Axel is the 31st person associated with Johns Hopkins University to win a Nobel, in a line dating back to history Ph.D. graduate Woodrow Wilson's Peace Prize in 1919. Faculty member Peter Agre, M.D., who shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was the most recent recipient.
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