Linda B. Buck

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Linda Buck
Buck in 2015
Born
Linda Brown Buck

(1947-01-29) January 29, 1947 (age 77)[4]
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Alma mater
Known forOlfactory receptors
SpouseRoger Brent
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
University of Washington, Seattle
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Columbia University
Harvard University[3]
ThesisThe Expression of IgD and Lyb-2 by Murine B Lymphocytes (1980)
Doctoral advisorEllen Vitetta
Websitewww.hhmi.org/scientists/linda-b-buck

Linda Brown Buck (born January 29, 1947) is an American biologist best known for her work on the

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.[9]

Personal life

Linda B. Buck was born in

Seattle, Washington on January 29, 1947. Her father was an electrical engineer who spent his time inventing and building different items in his spare time, while her mother was a homemaker who spent a majority of her free time solving word puzzles.[10] Buck was the second of three children, all of them girls.[11] Her father has Irish ancestry as well as ancestors dating back to the American revolution. Her mother is of Swedish ancestry.[12] In 1994 Buck met Roger Brent, also a biologist. The two married in 2006.[13]

Education

Buck received her

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.[15]

Career and research

In 1980, Buck began

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and an Affiliate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2004)

In her landmark paper published in 1991 with Richard Axel, Linda Buck discovered hundreds of genes code for the odorant sensors located in the olfactory neurons of our noses.

olfaction. In their later work, Buck and Axel have shown that each olfactory receptor neuron remarkably only expresses one kind of olfactory receptor protein and that the input from all neurons expressing the same receptor is collected by a single dedicated glomerulus of the olfactory bulb
.

Awards and honors

Buck was awarded the Takasago Award for Research in Olfaction (1992), Unilever Science Award (1996), R.H. Wright Award in Olfactory Research (1996), Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research (1996),

Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS).[2]

Retractions

Buck retracted 3 papers, published in

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (pub 2005, retracted 2010) due to falsification/fabrication of results by lead author and collaborator Zhihua Zou. [23]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Linda B. Buck – A Superstar of Science". Superstars of Science. Archived from the original on 2014-08-10. Retrieved 2015-11-11.
  2. ^ a b "Dr Linda Buck ForMemRS, Foreign Member". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-11-17. Retrieved 2015-11-11.
  3. ^ "Facts & Figures". Harvard Medical School. Harvard College. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  4. ^ a b "Buck, Linda B.". Who's Who. Vol. 2016 (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ^ "Press Release: The 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
  6. ^
    PMID 1840504
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  7. ^ "Secrets of smell land Nobel Prize". BBC News. 4 October 2004. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
  8. ^ "Linda B. Buck – Curriculum Vitae, Interview". 2013-01-12. Archived from the original on January 12, 2013. Retrieved 2015-11-11.
  9. ^ "Linda Buck Lab". Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Retrieved 2015-11-11.
  10. ^ "Linda B. Buck, PhD". HHMI.org. Retrieved 2016-04-04.
  11. ^ a b c d "Linda B. Buck – Biographical". Nobelprize.org. The Nobel Foundation 2004. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
  12. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2023-10-22.
  13. ISBN 9783527406784
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  14. ^ "Linda Fagan, '00, takes helm of U.S. Coast Guard". UW Magazine — University of Washington Magazine. May 30, 2022. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  15. ^
    ISBN 9783527406784
    . Retrieved December 2, 2015.
  16. ^ a b "Linda B. Buck, Ph.D. Biography – Academy of Achievement". www.achievement.org.
  17. ^ "Linda B. Buck – Autobiography". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  18. ^ Stein, Gabe (8 September 2017). "Five facts about Linda Buck, olfactory pioneer". Massive Science. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
  19. ^ Lyons, Daniel. "The Secrets of Scent". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
  20. ^ a b Wayne, Tiffany K. (2010). "Linda B. Buck". American Women of Science Since 1900.
  21. American Academy of Achievement
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  22. ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 7 April 2011.
  23. ^ Retraction Database search. RetractionDatabase.org. Retrieved 14 December 2021

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