Paul Breslin received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in Experimental Psychology and completed postdoctoral training at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, PA. He has conducted research funded by the National Institutes of Health,The Gates Foundation, The Gerber Foundation, The Eppley Foundation for Research, and many other organizations over his career.
He is interested in sensation & perception, feeding, genetics, nutrition, neuroscience, and regulatory physiology. He has directed his research toward translational medicine to develop preventions and treatments of wounds, inflammation, loss of taste with radiotherapy, loss of salivation with radiotherapy, juvenile malnutrition, diarrhea in children, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, vitamin A deficiency, and mosquito-born diseases such as malaria, Dengue, and Zika. He is a professor of Nutritional Sciences at Rutgers University and a Member of the Monell Chemical Senses Center.
Selected honors include three Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Awards, an American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions, an NIH FIRST Award, the Firmenich International Flavour and Fragrance Award, the Moskowitz Jacobs Award for Research Excellence in the Psychophysics of Taste and Smell, the EVONIK Innovation Award, achieved the Status of Associate of the Register of Extra Virgin Olive Oil Savantes, a Morley R. Kare Fellowship, was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the National Academies of Practice, and is currently serving as President of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences.
Publications
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Evidence that human oral glucose detection involves a sweet taste pathway and a glucose transporter pathway., Breslin PAS, Izumi A, Tharp A, Ohkuri T, Yokoo Y, Flammer LJ, Rawson NE, and Margolskee RF., 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256989
Courses
- 11:709:443: Methods in Sensory Analysis (Undergraduate, Fall)
- 16:709:515: Principles of Nutrition Research (Graduate, Spring)