Sandeep Robert Datta is a professor in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, where his lab focuses on understanding how sensory cues, particularly odors, are detected by the nervous system, how the brain transforms information about the presence of salient sensory cues into patterns of motivated action, and how the brain uses behavior to usefully interact with the world. Datta is an associate member of the Broad Institute and a principal investigator in the Italian Institute of Technology/Harvard Medical School joint program in the neurosciences. He has received the NIH New Innovator Award and the Burroughs Welcome Career Award in the Medical Sciences among others and is a fellow of the National Academy of Science/Kavli Scholars program. He co-founded Syllable and Optogenix, and sits on the scientific advisory boards of Neumora and Gilgamesh Therapeutics.
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Aromas can trigger memories more forcefully than any other sense. The ability to smell allows us to enjoy nature’s riches, protects us from food gone bad, warns of gas leaks,...