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Appendix D: Participant Biographies
Pages 93-116

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From page 93...
... She is also the recipient of the Society for Neuroscience Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression Patricia Goldman-Rakic Prize for Cognitive Neuroscience (2007) , and the Koch Award from the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (2010)
From page 94...
... Barrett, Ph.D., is professor and chair of pharmacology and physiology as well as founding director of the Drug Discovery and Development Program at Drexel University College of Medicine and of the Clinical and Translational Research Institute, Drexel University. He received his Ph.D.
From page 95...
... Dews Lifetime Achievement Award for Research in Behavioral Pharmacology.
From page 96...
... Brose was appointed as executive editor of the Neuroscience Portfolio, which includes, in addition to Neuron, the review journals Trends in Neurosciences and Trends in Cognitive Sciences. She currently also serves as editorial director for reviews strategy for Cell Press and is a member of the Cell Press senior management team.
From page 97...
... He served on the NIH BRAIN Initiative Working Group, and is currently a member of the NIH Council of Councils, the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematics and Physical Sciences Advisory Committee, the Board of Directors of the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund, and the Board of Trustees of the International Anesthesia Research Society.
From page 98...
... He was formerly executive vice president at the Simons Foundation in New York City, vice president for Academic Health Affairs at Emory University, executive vice president for neuroscience at Merck Research Labs, and head of neurology at Washington University Medical School.
From page 99...
... His contributions include his critical role in the development of practical echo-planar scanning, ultra-fast MRI applications, contrast-based and blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) fMRI, applications of linear systems analysis to increase fMRI sensitivity and resolution, and concurrent recordings of electroencephalography and fMRI to better understand brain dynamics and distributed processing.
From page 100...
... She has contributed to multiple NIH-wide efforts related to research training and career development, including a stint as co-chair of the NIH Training Advisory Committee, participating in NIH Roadmap, Blueprint for Neuroscience Research, and BRAIN training initiatives, and recently serving as the acting NIH research training officer. In that position, she led the reissuance of the parent NIH training and career development funding announcements, and contributed to implementation of the recommendations of the Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group to the NIH Advisory Committee to the Director.
From page 101...
... In 1979 Dr. Insel joined NIMH, where he served in various scientific research positions until 1994, when he went to Emory University as professor, Department of Psychiatry, Emory University School of Medicine, and director of the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center.
From page 102...
... Pablo Castillo at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in New York, where she has been a Research Fellow in Neuroscience since 2012. Her areas of expertise are synaptic physiology, autism spectrum disorders, and Alzheimer's disease.
From page 103...
... Together, they directed program planning and budgeting, and oversaw the scientific and administrative functions of the institute. He has held leadership roles in a number of NIH and NINDS programs, including the NIH's BRAIN Initiative, the Traumatic Brain Injury Center collaborative effort between the NIH intramural program and the Uniformed Health Services University, and the multiyear work to develop and establish the NIH Office of Emergency Care Research to coordinate NIH emergency care research and research training.
From page 104...
... Dr. Lipscombe co-directs the Center for the Neurobiology of Cells and Circuits; chairs the steering committee for the Neuroscience Graduate Program and Graduate Partnerships Program with NIH; and directed the Neuroscience Graduate Program from 2004 to 2012.
From page 105...
... . He is director of the Penn Epilepsy Center at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and director of the Translational Neuroengineering Laboratory in Bioengineering, where he teaches a programming intensive graduate course on brain-computer interfaces.
From page 106...
... Through Neuroscience Information Framework and her neuroscience background, Dr. Martone has a unique global perspective on issues in data sharing and usage in the neurosciences and has gained considerable insight and expertise in working with diverse biomedical data.
From page 107...
... As co-director of the doctoral program in neurobiology and behavior at Columbia, and current president of the Society for Neuroscience, she has focused on training the next generation of neuroscientists, mentoring at all career stages, and promoting science communication to the public. Marguerite Matthews, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Behavioral Neuroscience at the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)
From page 108...
... in psychology from Stanford University and completed postdoctoral training in pharmacology at the Stanford University Medical School. He holds a faculty appointment at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
From page 109...
... For more than two decades he has been active in the development of many important central nervous system drugs while holding various senior roles in Pfizer R&D, Parke-Davis/Warner-Lambert, and Lilly Research Laboratories. His experience includes pre-Investigational New Drug development; proof of concept to registration development; and launch and lifecycle management in the areas of anxiety, depression, epilepsy, neuropathic pain, schizophrenia, traumatic brain injury, and Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
From page 110...
... Her research is in the areas of ion channel biophysics, synaptic transmission, and cerebellar physiology. From 2011–2014, she served as director of the Northwestern University Interdepartmental Neuroscience graduate training program, which unites about 150 faculty and 150 students in 20 departments in 7 schools of Northwestern.
From page 111...
... Ricci has promoted science and education across socioeconomic groups by founding the Advance Summer Research Institute. It provides a transition time for incoming graduate students across all bioscience programs, enabling them to do an early research rotation, participate in workshops for professional development, and learn the skills needed to be a successful graduate student.
From page 112...
... An investigator with HHMI, he is also a fellow of AAAS and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He has received many honors, including the Wright Prize for interdisciplinary research from Harvey Mudd College, the Neural Network Pioneer Award from IEEE, and the Hebb Prize from the International Neural Network Society.
From page 113...
... Prior to joining the faculty at UCI, he was a professor of neuroscience and neurosurgery at the University of Virginia, where he chaired the Department of Neuroscience. Steward is a recipient of the NIH Research Career Development Award, the Jacob Javitz Neuroscience Investigator Award, and the Distinguished Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression.
From page 114...
... He completed postdoctoral training at the Centre for Neuroscience at the University of Alberta. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and has mentored undergraduate and graduate students in bioengineering; medical students; and postdoctoral fellows.
From page 115...
... Subsequent postdoctoral research studies centered on basic research of brain and intracellular neuronal signaling mechanisms at the Rockefeller University, New York, New York, in Paul Greengard's (Nobel Laureate) laboratory of molecular and cellular neuroscience.
From page 116...
... Dr. Zorn has extensive drug discovery and drug development experience across a broad range of neuro- and psychiatric disorders and across the whole value chain for drug discovery and development.


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