Linda R. Watkins
American researcher, professor of psychology and neuroscience
About Linda R. Watkins
Born 1954. Linda R. Watkins is an American physiologist, biochemist, researcher and university teacher.
Linda R. Watkins (born 1954) is an American biochemist and physiologist. She discovered that glial cells can play a key role in the neuronal treatment of pain.
Since 1988 she has been a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience.
In 2010, she was awarded the Prince of Asturias Awards for Technical and Scientific Research along David Julius and Baruch Minke.
Education Watkins received her B.S from UCLA in 1976 and her PhD in physiology from the Medical College of Virginia in 1980.
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American researcher, professor of psychology and neuroscience
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Linda R. Watkins was born in 1954.
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