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Department of Pharmacology Reaches 100% Green Office Certification

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Congratulations to the Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics for being the first department at Boston University to reach 100% Green Office Certification. Because of their efforts, they have been awarded the honor of piloting the Boston University Green Department Certification program and expect to be certified within the next month.

Pietro Cottone Speaks at NIDA’s Mentored K Awardees Meeting

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Congratulations to Dr. Pietro Cottone, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Psychiatry, who was invited to speak at the National Institute on Drug Abuses’s Mentored K Awardees Meeting: Nuts and Bolts of Building Research Independence, held on July 25-26, 2011 at the Rockville Hilton Hotel and Meeting Center in Maryland. Pietro was selected because of his […]

Benjamin Wolozin, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Pharmacology and Neurology

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Benjamin Wolozin completed his undergraduate education at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. He earned his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, as part of the Medical Scientist Training Program. His postdoctoral fellowships were spent at Mt. Sinai Medical Center (1988-9) and the National Institute of Mental Health (1989–96). He joined Loyola […]

Nicole Fazo Northrop Receives Travel Award to 23rd Biennial Meeting of the International Society Neurochemistry-European Society for Neurochemistry in Athens in August/September 2011

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Congratulations to Nicole Fazo Northrop, a Ph.D. student in the Program in Biomolecular Pharmacology, on receiving a Travel Award to present her research at the 23rd Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Neurochemistry-European Society for Neuroscience in Athens, Greece, August 28 through September 1, 2011. Nicole’s presentation is on “Serial Exposure to Stress and […]

Conan Kornetsky Receives 2011 Bernard Lown University of Maine Alumni Humanitarian Award

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Congratulations to Conan Kornetsky, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, on being awarded the 2011 Bernard Lown University of Maine Alumni Humanitarian Award. Dr. Kornetsky, Director of the Laboratory of Behavioral Pharmacology, carries out research on the neural mechanisms involved in the behavioral effects of drugs, focusing on the brain’s motivational systems. The Bernard Lown […]

Pietro Cottone, Ph.D., Receives NIMH-BRAINS Award

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Congratulations to Dr. Pietro Cottone, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Psychiatry, one of two BUSM faculty members to receive the prestigious National Institute of Mental Health Biobehavioral Research Awards for Innovative New Scientists. He is one of twelve recipients from around the country. The BRAINS award recognizes innovative and groundbreaking research projects from early stage […]

Benjamin Wolozin to speak at The Alzheimer’s Association/Rhode Island Chapter 14th annual Brian R. Ott, M.D. Research Symposium on Thursday, 18 November 2010

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November is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month NEUROLOGY EXPERT TO SPEAK AT ALZHEIMER’S RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM NOVEMBER 18, 2010 Dr. Benjamin Wolozin to discuss the causes and treatment of dementia and the link between heart and brain health PROVIDENCE, R.I  (October 25, 2010):  The Alzheimer’s Association/Rhode Island Chapter is holding its 14th annual Brian R. Ott, M.D. Research […]