Ricardo Miledi

Ricardo Miledi (* 1927 in Mexico City) is a Mexican neurobiologist who is a leader in research synapses.

Miledia studied medicine at the Instituto Cientifico y Literario in Chihuahua and at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Diploma in Medicine 1955). He then worked at the National Institute of Cardiology with Arturo Rosenblueth and Garcia Ramos Juan. In 1955, he worked as a Grass Fellow at the Research Center in Woods Hole (Massachusetts ) and from 1956 to 1958 as a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow in Canberra. In the 1960s and 1970s, he conducted research in and with Bernard Katz in the UK. He was a professor at the University of California, Irvine. He is also at the Center for Neurobiology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Campus Querétaro ).

Miledi is known for his research on neurotransmitter receptors and the mechanisms of synapses. 1967 postulated Mileda Bernard Katz the importance of increasing the concentration of calcium ions into the nerve cell in the arrival of a nerve axon signal for the release of neurotransmitters via exocytosis of vesicles at the synapse. He was able to confirm experimentally (published in Proc. Roy.Soc. , 1973). He is also known for working with Katz synaptic noise at neuromuscular junctions ( Neuromuscular Junction, NMJ ) with acetylcholine transmitter (from 1970 /71).

He is a member of the Royal Society, the Mexican Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. In 1999 he received the Prince of Asturias Prize, and in 1998 he received the British Royal Medal. He received the Ralph W. Gerard Prize - the Society of Neuroscience and the 1988 King Faisal Prize 2010. He is a founding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Developing World.

He is a multiple honorary doctorates ( Universidad del Pais Vasco in 1992, University of Chihuahua 2000, University of Trieste in 1992, Autonomous University of Querétaro in 2003, National Autonomous University of Mexico 2007).