Sterling Drug Visiting Professors
1979 ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STERLING DRUG VISITING PROFESSORSHIP FUND ENDOWMENT
The Sterling Drug Visiting Professorship Fund was established to promote the interchange of knowledge between colleges and universities in the field of pharmacology. Each visiting Professor is a scholar of superior distinction in a discipline of interest and significance to the students and faculty of the college.
BUSM was selected to receive the first Sterling Drug Inc. Visiting Professorship because of the School’s association with the former chairman and chief executive officer of the diversified pharmaceutical company, the late J. Mark Hiebert, M.D. Dr. Hiebert was a graduate of BUSM and a key benefactor of the School. He was a Boston University trustee for 21 years and had joined Sterling as a clinical researcher in 1934 after completing his studies at BUSM and serving as a medical house officer at Massachusetts Memorial (now University Hospital) and Massachusetts General Hospital. His wife, Dorothy Prior Hiebert, M.D., was also a BUSM graduate.
BUSM is the site of major interdisciplinary research centers, including the Hubert H. Humphrey Cancer Research Center, the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute of Boston University, the Pulmonary Center, the Center for Human Genetics, and the Center of Advanced Biomedical Research. It is an innovator in medical education, offering several alternative curricula leading to the M.D. degree.
STERLING DRUG VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS 1979 – PRESENT
1992 DENNIS W. CHOI, M.D., Professor and Chairman of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine
Can We Reduce the Brain’s Vulnerability to Injury
Mechanisms of Glutamate Neurotoxicity In Vitro
1993 WILLIAM A. CATTERALL, Ph.D., Professor and Chairman of Pharmacology, University of Washington School of Medicine
Structure and Modulation of Voltage-Gated Ion Channels
Molecular Properties and Subcellular Localization of Brain Calcium Channels
1994 ERMINIO COSTA, M.D., Director of the Fidia-Georgetown Institute for the Neurosciences, Georgetown University School of Medicine
Glutamatergic Transmission and Brain Plasticity
Two Mechanisms for Allosteric Modulation of GABAA Receptors
1995 EDGAR HABER, M.D., Elkan R. Blout Professor of Biological Sciences; Director, Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Harvard School of Public Health
Homocysteine, a New Risk Factor in Arteriosclerotic Disease: Molecular Mechanisms
Cellular Basis of Transplant Arteriosclerosis: Studies in Mice with Immune System Mutations
1996 JEAN-PIERRE CHANGEUX, Ph.D., Professeur au Collège de France et à l’Institut Pasteur, Unité de Neurobiologie Moléculaire, Paris, France
The Functional Organization of the Acetylcholine Receptor: A Membrane Bound Allosteric Protein
The Regulation of Acetylcholine Receptor Genes Expression in the Course of Synapse Formation in Muscles and Brain
1997 BERT W. O’MALLEY, M.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine
Molecular Mechanisms of Steroid Receptor Action: 1997
Ligand-Independent Activation of Steroid Receptors
1998 LEE LIMBIRD, Ph.D., Professor and Chairperson, Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Specificity in Signal Transduction Achieved by Coupling to Distinct Proteins and Targeting to Discrete Membrane Surface Domains
Mechanisms and Molecular Motifs Involved in Targeting alpha2-Adrenergic Receptor Subtypes to Discrete Membrane Surfaces in Target Cells
1998 ROBERT TIJIAN, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute,University of California Berkeley
Mechanisms of Transcriptional Regulation in Metazoan Cells
Activators, TAFs and Cell-Type Specific Core Promoter Recognition Factors
2000 STEVEN J. PAUL, M.D., Ph.D., Lilly Research Laboratories
2003 CURRENT PERSPECTIVES ON DRUG ABUSE RESEARCH: A SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF CONAN KORNETSKY, PH.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, Boston University School of Medicine
Pathology to Pleasure: How the Brain Reward System Discovered Us
TOPICS/SPEAKERS
The Effects of Chronic Marijuana Use: Is There Hope for Aging Hippies? Linda J. Porrino, Ph.D, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Brief Social Stress Experiences, Enduring Neural Sensitization, and Drug Binges, Klaus A. Miczek, Ph.D., Tufts University
Taking Potshots at Memory: Are Cannabinoids Involved? Samuel A. Deadwyler, Ph.D., Wake Forest University School of Medicine
An Allostatic View of Addiction: A Key Role for the ‘Kornetsky’ Brain Reward System, George F. Koob, Ph.D., The Scripps Research Institute
