Ricardo Miledi

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Ricardo Miledi (born September 15, 1927 in Mexico City , † December 18, 2017 in Irvine , California ) was a Mexican neurobiologist who was a leader in synapse research .

Miledia studied medicine at the Instituto Cientifico y Literario in Chihuahua and at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Diploma in Medicine 1955). He then worked at the National Institute of Cardiology with Arturo Rosenblueth and Juan Garcia Ramos. In 1955 he was a Grass Fellow at the research center in Woods Hole ( Massachusetts ) and from 1956 to 1958 as a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow in Canberra . In the 1960s and 1970s he conducted research with and with Bernard Katz in Great Britain. He was a professor at the University of California, Irvine . He was also at the Center for Neurobiology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Querétaro Campus).

Miledi was known for his research on neurotransmitter receptors and the mechanisms of synapses. In 1967, Mileda and Bernard Katz postulated the importance of increasing the concentration of calcium ions in the nerve cell when an axonal nerve signal arrives for the release of neurotransmitters through exocytosis of vesicles at the synapse. He was able to confirm this experimentally (published in Proc. Roy.Soc. 1973). He was also known for his work with Katz on synaptic noise at neuromuscular junctions (Neuromuscular Junction, NMJ) with acetylcholine transmitters (from 1970/71).

He was a member of the Royal Society , the Mexican Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and, since 1989, the National Academy of Sciences . He was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize in 1999 and the British Royal Medal in 1998 . In 2010 he received the Ralph W. Gerard Prize of the Society for Neuroscience and in 1988 the König Faisal Prize . He was a founding member of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World .

He has also received several honorary doctorates (Universidad del Pais Vasco 1992, University of Chihuahua 2000, University of Trieste 1992, Autonomous University of Querétaro 2003, National Autonomous University of Mexico 2007).

He died on December 18, 2017 in Irvine.

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  1. ↑ Falleció el mexicano neurobiólogo Ricardo Miledi , retrieved (on February 22, 2018 Spanish )
personal data
SURNAME Miledi, Ricardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican neurobiologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico city
DATE OF DEATH 18th December 2017
Place of death Irvine , California