Former Vitetta Trainee Dr. Linda Buck is 2004 Nobel Laureate

On October 4, 2004, the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, announced that Dr. Linda Buck, along with Dr. Richard Axel of Columbia University, won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system." 

Dr. Buck, who pursued her doctorate in immunology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas under the direction of Dr. Ellen S. Vitetta, was a psychology and microbiology double major at the University of Wisconsin.
 

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