05 Sep 2006

UCC Pharmacologist wins Major Psychopharmacology Award



Dr John F. Cryan, Senior Lecturer in the School of Pharmacy and in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Principal Investigator in the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre (APC) was awarded the inaugural Wyeth Psychopharmacology Award (Senior) from the British Association of Psychopharmacology at an awards banquet held in Oxford University recently. The Wyeth awards were established to specifically reward outstanding research in pre-clinical psychopharmacology. Dr Cryan delivered an awards lecture at the Association's annual meeting entitled "Silencing the unquiet mind: Pharmacological, knockout and siRNA approaches to understand depression and the antidepressant response."

Dr Cryan's current research interests include neuropsychopharmacological approaches for the treatment of stress-related disorders including depression, anxiety, functional gastrointestinal disorders, cognitive dysfunction and drug dependence.

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