Danielle Reed

Danielle Renee Reed is the Chief Science Officer of the Monell Chemical Senses Center, a non-profit research institution devoted to the study of taste and smell, located in Philadelphia. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Yale University, and did her postdoctoral training in genetics at the University of Pennsylvania. She studies person-to-person differences in the sense of taste and smell, is the past president of the Association of Chemoreception Sciences and a founding member of the Global Consortium for Chemosensory Research, and was recently awarded a patent for smell screening test. Currently she is working on a collaborative grant to understand the molecular basis of post-viral taste and smell loss.

• Diverse Tastes: Genetics of Sweet and Bitter Perception (2006) Paper
• Genetics of Human Taste Perception (2004) Paper
• Genetics of Taste and Smell: Poisons and Pleasures (2010) Paper