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Lorna Role
Gerald Fischbach Scientist
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Lorna Role was a very talented Harvard graduate, who did very well in my lab working on neurons synapses, intraneuronal synapses and then went back to Columbia as a faculty member and then out to Long Island, where she really thrived. She took my advice and left Stony Brook and went to the NIH, where she became the director of intramural research. My strong, strong recommendation, that she's really a leader and the entire institute responded to her enthusiasm, and I think she's still going strong there.

Gerald Fischbach (b. 1938) is an American neuroscientist and pioneering researcher. He pioneered the use of nerve cell cultures to study the electrophysiology, morphology and biochemistry of developing nerve-muscle and inter-neuronal synapses.

Listeners: Christopher Sykes

Christopher Sykes is an independent documentary producer who has made a number of films about science and scientists for BBC TV, Channel Four, and PBS.

Tags: physiology, Lorna Role, Washington University

Duration: 1 minute

Date story recorded: July 2023

Date story went live: 16 May 2025