In a paper just published in Science, scientists from Rockefeller University in New York City show that humans can discriminate more than 1 trillion olfactory stimuli. It was previously thought that we could detect 10,000 odors.

1. Julio Licinio
Julio Licinio, MD, FRANZCP, is Deputy Director, Translational Medicine and Head, Mind
and Brain Theme at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute and
Strategic Professor of Psychiatry, Flinders University. He is also Research Professor at
University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He was previously Director, John Curtin
School of Medical Research, ANU, and head of the Translational Medicine Department.
Professor Licinio lived for 25 years in the USA, where he had training in endocrinology
and psychiatry at University of Chicago, Albert Einstein and Cornell.
Qualifications:
M.D., University of Bahia School of Medicine, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 1977-82
Residency in Internal Medicine, University of São Paulo Medical Center, Brazil, 1982-84
Fellowship in Medicine/Endocrinology, the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of
Medicine, Chicago, I llinois, 1984-85
Internship in Psychiatry (PGY 1), Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of
Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, 1985-86ClinicalAssociate in Psychiatry,
Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York, 1986-88
Senior Clinical Associate in Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College, New York,
New York, 1988-89
Visiting Scientist, Clinical Neuroendocrinology Branch, Intramural Research Program,
National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA, 1989-1990
Fellow and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut,
1990-1993
Chief, Unit on Clinical Research, Clinical Neuroendocrinology Branch, Intramural
Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Bethesda, MD,1993-1999

2. Professor of Psychiatry and Bio behavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine
at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 1999-2006.
Miller Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences,
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, 2006-2008
CEO, University of Miami Behavioral Health, Miami, FL, 2006-2009
Chief of Service, Department of Psychiatry, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL, 2006-
2008
Director and Professor, John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National
University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 2009 - 2013
Head, Department of Translational Medicine, John Curtin School of Medical Research,
The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 2009 – 2013
Research Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Southern California, Los
Angeles, California, USA, 2010 –
President, International Society of Translational Medicine, 2013 – 2014
Research-Track Residency in Psychiatry (Assistant Psychiatrist, PGY 2-4). Preceptors:
Katherine A. Halmi, M.D., and Gerald L. Klerman, M.D., The New York Hospital -Cornell
Medical Center, Westchester Div ision, White Plains, New York, 1986-89
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