Position:
Assistant Professor at UC San Diego
Work:
UC San Diego
- University of California, San Diego since Jul 2011
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Assistant Professor
International Behavioral Neuroscience Society
2008 - 2009
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Councilor Student
UC San Diego
Mar 2006 - Jan 2009
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Post Doctoral Fellow
Organon
2005 - 2006
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Scientist
Organon Laboratories
Aug 2005 - Feb 2006
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Scientist
University of Edinburgh
2001 - 2004
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Ph.D. Student
Education:
The University of Edinburgh 2001 - 2004
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Psychopharmacology
University of Paisley 1997 - 2001
Ph.D; BSc, Psychopharmacology; Psychology with Biology
Skills:
Neuropharmacology, Pharmacology, Animal Models, In Vivo, Neuroscience
Honor & Awards:
Preclinical Psychopharmacologist of the Year Award from British Association for Psychopharmacology, 2010.
Travel Award from the American College of Neuropsychopharmacologists Dec, 2009.
Outstanding poster presentation in preclinical psychopharmacology from BAP, July, 2008.
‘Top 10 cited paper 2006-2008 award for European Neuropsychopharmacology’ for “Impaired attention is central to the cognitive deficits observed in alpha 7 deficient mice”.
Travel Award from the BAP, July, 2008.
Travel Award from IBNS, June, 2008.
Travel Fellowship Award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry, May, 2008
Travel Award from the EBPS, Sept 2007
‘Best oral presentation ’ at the 2nd UK nAChR Meeting, London, May 2005 “Nicotine reverses the working memory deficit observed in mice over-expressing human caspase-3.”
Travel Awards from the BAP, 2003 and 2004.
Grindley Grant Award from the Experimental Psychology Society to attend SFN, Oct, 2004
Travel Award from BRAIN to attend SFN, Oct, 2004.