CPDD is excited to welcome Dr. Eric Nestler as a special feature speaker at the 87th CPDD Conference in New Orleans, LA, June 14-18, 2025. Dr. Nestler will share his perspectives on addiction research and offer valuable insights for substance use disorder researchers. This is a valuable opportunity to network with and gain knowledge from one of the leading experts in the field.
Dr. Nestler is a distinguished figure and worldwide leading expert on the biological basis of addiction and depression. He serves as Mount Sinai’s Nash Family Professor of Neuroscience and Director of The Friedman Brain Institute. He received his B.A., Ph.D., and M.D. degrees, and psychiatry residency training, from Yale University. He served on the Yale faculty from 1987-2000, where he was the Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry, Pharmacology, and Neurobiology, and Director of the Division of Molecular Psychiatry. He moved to Dallas in 2000 where he was the Lou and Ellen McGinley Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center until moving to New York in 2008.
Dr. Nestler is a member of National Academy of Medicine (1998) and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005). He is a past President of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (2011) and the Society for Neuroscience (2017).
The goal of Dr. Nestler’s research is to better understand the molecular basis of drug addiction and depression. His research uses non-human animal models of these disorders to identify the ways in which addictive drugs or stress change the brain to lead to addiction- or depression-like syndromes, and to use this information to develop improved treatments of these disorders.
