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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