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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1987 - US President's National Medal of Science "For a major breakthrough in neurobiology by her discovery of the Nerve Growth Factor and its effect on the growth of the sympathetic nervous system which set the stage for worldwide studies of the molecules involved in normal and malignant growth.", Presented by President Reagan at a White House Ceremony on June 25, 1987.
  • 1986 - Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Lasker Foundation
  • 1986 - Nobel Prize for their discoveries of growth factors
  • 1985 - Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience
  • 1983 - Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, Columbia University
  • 1968 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1953 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Rita Levi-Montalcini was affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their scientific work focused primarily on neurobiology and the discovery of growth factors affecting the nervous system.

Throughout their career, Rita Levi-Montalcini received multiple awards recognizing contributions to medical and biological sciences. Among these were the Nobel Prize awarded in 1986 for discoveries related to growth factors. In 1987, they were presented with the US President's National Medal of Science, which highlighted a major breakthrough in neurobiology through the discovery of the Nerve Growth Factor and its effect on the growth of the sympathetic nervous system. This award was presented by President Reagan at a White House ceremony on June 25, 1987.

Additional honors include the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1986, the Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience awarded by the Society for Neuroscience in 1985, and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in 1983. Earlier in their career, they were named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1953 and became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1968. They were also a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Details concerning recent papers, frequent co-authors, publication venues, book publications, main fields and subfields of study, or specific topics of work were not available to elaborate further on their scientific output or research topics at this time.

Best Publications

  • Proliferation, differentiation and degeneration in the spinal ganglia of the chick embryo under normal and experimental conditions.

    Viktor Hamburger;Rita Levi-Montalcini

  • Selective growth stimulating effects of mouse sarcoma on the sensory and sympathetic nervous system of the chick embryo.

    Rita Levi-Montalcini;Viktor Hamburger

  • The nerve growth factor: Thirty-five years later

    Rita Levi-Montalcini

  • Mast cells synthesize, store, and release nerve growth factor.

    A Leon;A Buriani;R Dal Toso;M Fabris

  • Nerve growth factor : from neurotrophin to neurokine

    Rita Levi-Montalcini;Stephen D. Skaper;Roberto Dal Toso;Lucia Petrelli

  • DESTRUCTION OF THE SYMPATHETIC GANGLIA IN MAMMALS BY AN ANTISERUM TO A NERVE-GROWTH PROTEIN.

    Rita Levi-Montalcini;Barbara Booker

  • In vitro experiments on the effects of mouse sarcomas 180 and 37 on the spinal and sympathetic ganglia of the chick embryo.

    Rita Levi-Montalcini;Hertha Meyer;Viktor Hamburger

  • A NERVE GROWTH-STIMULATING FACTOR ISOLATED FROM SARCOM AS 37 AND 180.

    Stanley Cohen;Rita Levi-Montalcini;Viktor Hamburger

  • The nerve growth factor: its mode of action on sensory and sympathetic nerve cells.

    Levi-Montalcini R

  • The development of the acoustico‐vestibular centres in the chick embryo in the absence of the afferent root fibers and of descending fiber tracts

    Rita Levi-montalcini;Rita Levi-montalcini

  • Essential role of the nerve growth factor in the survival and maintenance of dissociated sensory and sympathetic embryonic nerve cells in vitro.

    Rita Levi-Montalcini;Rita Levi-Montalcini;Pietro U. Angeletti;Pietro U. Angeletti

  • Mast cells increase in tissues of neonatal rats injected with the nerve growth factor

    Luigi Aloe;Rita Levi-Montalcini

  • A diffusible agent of mouse sarcoma, producing hyperplasia of sympathetic ganglia and hyperneurotization of viscera in the chick embryo

    Rita Levi-Montalcini;Viktor Hamburger

  • EXCESSIVE GROWTH OF THE SYMPATHETIC GANGLIA EVOKED BY A PROTEIN ISOLATED FROM MOUSE SALIVARY GLANDS.

    Rita Levi-Montalcini;Barbara Booker

  • Nerve growth factor in the synovial fluid of patients with chronic arthritis.

    Luigi Aloe;Marco A. Tuveri;Ugo Carcassi;Rita Levi-Montalcini

  • A NERVE GROWTH-STIMULATING FACTOR ISOLATED FROM SNAKE VENOM.

    Stanley Cohen;Rita Levi-Montalcini

  • DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROBIOLOGY AND THE NATURAL HISTORY OF NERVE GROWTH FACTOR

    Rita Levi-Montalcini

  • EFFECTS OF MOUSE TUMOR TRANSPLANTATION ON THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

    Rita Levi-Montalcini

  • Multiple sclerosis patients express increased levels of beta-nerve growth factor in cerebrospinal fluid.

    L B Laudiero;L Aloe;R Levi-Montalcini;C Buttinelli

  • The origin and development of the visceral in the spinal cord of the chick embryo

    Rita Levi-Montalcini

Frequent Co-Authors

Luigi Aloe
Luigi Aloe National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Viktor Hamburger
Viktor Hamburger Washington University in St. Louis
George Kollias
George Kollias National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Lesley Probert
Lesley Probert Institut Pasteur
Antonino Cattaneo
Antonino Cattaneo International School for Advanced Studies
Enrico Alleva
Enrico Alleva Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Gerry Melino
Gerry Melino University of Rome Tor Vergata
Laura Calzà
Laura Calzà University of Bologna
Maria Grazia Spillantini
Maria Grazia Spillantini University of Cambridge
Stanley N. Cohen
Stanley N. Cohen Stanford University

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