Linda B. Buck

She studied Physiology and Microbiology in Washington University (USA) and did her doctoral thesis about Immunology in 1980.

It was during her postdoctoral work with Richard Axel, in Columbia University, when she began to investigate about odours, pheromones and olfactory receptors, studies that would be recognized with the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 2004, shared with Axel.

Since 2003 she is a member of National Academy of Sciences. Nowadays she is a professor of Neurobiology Department of Harvard University and continues to work in the recognition of odours by the brain.