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Tadeusz Pacholczyk
American neuroscientist
Tadeusz Pacholczyk (born 1964) is an American Roman Catholic priest, neuroscientist and writer.[1]
Biography
Pacholczyk grew up in Tucson, Arizona to a Polish family.[2] His father Andrzej Pacholczyk[3] was a professor of astrophysics at the University of Arizona.
He earned his doctorate in neuroscience from Yale University where he determined the gene sequence for the human norepinephrine transporter,[4][5] which demonstrated significant amino-acid identity with the GABA transporter, thus identifying a new gene family for neurotransmitter transporter proteins.[6] He did post-doctoral research at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital where his work focused on structural studies of the Na,K-ATPase.[7]
In 1999, he was ordained a priest, after studying in Rome.
He quickly became a church spokesman on what he calls beginning-of-life and end-of-life