Paul Breslin | |
Fields: | Psychology, Genetics |
Workplaces: | Monell Chemical Senses Center, Rutgers University |
Alma Mater: | University of Pennsylvania |
Known For: | Work with human oral perception and flies |
Paul Breslin is a geneticist and biologist.
He is most notable for his work in taste perception and oral irritation, in humans as well as in Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly.
He is a member of the faculty at the Monell Chemical Senses Center and acts as director of the Science Apprenticeship Program. He is a professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.[1] Breslin and two colleaguesdiscovered that Oleocanthal, a compound found in extra-virgin olive oil kills a variety of human cancer cells without harming healthy cells.[2]