Candace B. Pert is a leading researcher in the field of chemical receptors, places in the body where molecules of a drug or natural chemical fit like a key into a lock, thus stimulating or inhibiting various physiological or emotional effects. As a...

1946- American biochemist regarded as a codiscoverer of endorphins, which are peptide neurotransmitters that serve as natural opioids. Working with Solomon Snyder in 1973 she demonstrated the existence of opiate receptors in the brain. Pert contends...

Candace Beebe Pert (b. June 26, 1946) is a neuroscientist who discovered the opiate receptor, the cellular bonding site for endorphins in the brain. In 1974 she earned a Ph.D. in pharmacology from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the...