News Archive 2011

John F. Cryan has been appointed Professor and Chair of Department of Anatomy

John F. Cryan is Professor & Chair, Dept. of Anatomy, University College Cork. He received a B.Sc. (Hons) and PhD from the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.

He was a visiting fellow at the Dept Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Australia (1997-1998), which was followed by postdoctoral stints at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA and The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California. He spent four years at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research in Basel Switzerland, as a LabHead, Behavioural Pharmacology prior to joining UCC in 2005 where he was a Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology in the School of Pharmacy and in the Dept. Pharmacology & Therapeutics UCC.

rofessor Cryan has an H-Index of 35 having published over 130 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters including articles in high-impact journals such as PNAS, Neuron, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, Molecular Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, Progress in Neurobiology, Gastroenterology, Gut and Journal of Neuroscience. He has been commissioned to co-edit books on "Behavioural Neurogenetics" (Springer Press, 2011) and on " Depression: From Psychopathology to Pharmacotherapy" (Karger Press, 2010).

Professor Cryan has given over 40 Invited Lectures at various Institutions worldwide, and more than 30 Invited Oral/Plenary presentations at International Conferences. Dr. Cryan is an Editor of both British Journal of Pharmacology and Neuropharmacology. He is Advisory Editor of Psychopharmacology; on the Board of Reviewing Editors of Brain Research; an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience; an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Psychopharmacology; an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Gastrointestinal Pharmacology; an Editorial Board Member of Behavioural Pharmacology and has acted as Guest Editor of both Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews and International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. He is an adhoc reviewer for 72 different journals including Science, PNAS, J.Neurosci, Mol. Psychiatry, Arch Gen Psych, TiPS, Nature Methods and PLOS Biology. He organised a highly successful Conference for the European Behavioural Pharmacology Society in Cork in 2008 "From Mouse to Man: Behavioural Genetics and its Relevance to Psychiatric Disorders".and is on the Programme Committee for the 24th Congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Paris, France, September, 2011. He is co-organiser of the 21st Neuropharmacology Conference in Washington DC in November 2011 on the topic of Anxiety and Depression.

Professor Cryan is a member of the International Union on Pharmacology (IUPHAR) Committee on GABAB receptors. He is a member of the Full Committee of the European Behavioural Pharmacology Society and served as its Meeting Secretary and Executive Committee Member from 2007-2009. Dr Cryan has been honoured with the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Fellowship Award, the Wyeth Psychopharmacology Award from British Association of Psychopharmacology and the Young Scientist Award from the European Behavioural Pharmacology Society.

He is currently External Examiner for University Birmingham, BMed Sci Degree and Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, BSc (Hons) Degree in Applied Biology and Biopharmaceutical Sci. He has been an invited PhD thesis examiner at University of Bordeaux, France; Trinity College Dublin; Katholike Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; University Oxford, UK; University of Utrecht, The Netherlands; Univ Tartu, Estonia and Kings College London

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