Levi-Montalcini

[lee-vee-mon-tl-chee-nee, ley-, le-vee-mawn-tahl-chee-nee]

noun

1. Rita, 1909–2012, U.S. neurologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize 1986.

Levi-Montalcini

1. Italian-born American developmental biologist who discovered the nerve growth factor (NGF), a bodily substance that stimulates the growth of nerve cells. For this work she shared with American biochemist Stanley Cohen the 1986 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.

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He and Levi-Montalcini, who was denied opportunities to teach and practice medicine in her native Italy because of her Jewish heritage, formed an innovative scientific partnership.

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His colleague at the time, Rita Levi-Montalcini, had made a seminal discovery of a protein known as nerve growth factor, which stimulated the growth of nerve cells in laboratory mice.

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The importance of Dr. Cohen’s and Levi-Montalcini’s research was not fully understood at first.

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Dr. Cohen and Levi-Montalcini, who died in 2012, shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.

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For her early work in Italy, Levi-Montalcini built a small laboratory in her family home and worked in secret because of Mussolini's 1938 Manifesto of Race, which barred non-Aryan citizens from having academic careers.

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