Paul Greengard (1925–2019)

Abstract

Paul Greengard shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000 for discovering pathways that modulate signalling between neurons in the brain. This fundamental advance transformed the search for new ways to treat neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, a search in which he and his group at the Rockefeller University in New York City were involved right up to his death on 13 April, at the age of 93.