An Italian and American biologist, Rita Levi-Montalcini (born 1909) discovered the nerve growth factor (NGF), a protein molecule that enhances differentiative processes of the sensory and sympathetic neurons and may exert a modulatory role on...

Rita Levi-Montalcini is recognized for her pioneering research on nerve cell growth. During the 1950s she discovered a protein in the nervous system, which she named the nerve growth factor (NGF). Her subsequent collaboration with biochemist Stanley...

Rita Levi-Montalcini revealed a fundamental process for cell growth and differentiation by discovering the hormone-like protein nerve growth factor (NGF). For this work, she received part of the 1986 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Rita...

Rita Levi-Montalcini revealed a fundamental process for cell growth and differentiation by discovering the hormone-like protein nerve growth factor (NGF). For this work, she received part of the 1986 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine....

Rita Levi-Montalcini revealed a fundamental process for cell growth and differentiation by discovering the hormone-like protein nerve growth factor (NGF). For this work, she received part of the 1986 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine....