Rao S. Rapaka, Ph.D

Remarks by Frank Porreca & Victor J. Hruby, University of Arizona It is a pleasure for me to introduce Dr. Rao Rapaka, the winner of this year's J. Michael Morrison award from the College on Problems of Drug Dependence. This is a great personal pleasure for me...

Roy W. Pickens, Ph.D.

Roy W. Pickens received a Ph.D. degree in experimental psychology from the University of Mississippi in 1965. After a year of PHS postdoctoral training in psychopharmacology at the University of Minnesota with Travis Thompson, he accepted a faculty position in the...

Roger Brown, Ph.D.

National Institute on Drug Abuse Dr. Roger Brown received his B.S. degree in Pharmacy in 1965 from the University of Kansas. While in pharmacy school he received an Undergraduate Research Fellowship from the NSF and that experience made him consider research in...

Richard L. Hawks, Ph.D.

Deputy Director, Division of Treatment Research & Development, National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH Dr. Hawks has served as the Deputy Director of the Division of Treatment Research and Development (DTRD) at the National Institute on Drug Abuse since 1999 and as...

Ronald Brady, M.D.

Dr. Brady graduated from Temple University School of Medicine and completed his residency in Psychiatry at The Payne Whitney Clinic in 1970. He engaged in private practice for five years. Vincent and Marie Dole stimulated his interest in Addiction Medicine, and he has...

Robert L. Balster, Ph.D.

Professor of Pharmacology, University of MichiganMedical School Dr. Balster was trained as a research psychologist and pharmacologist. His primary research interest is in behavioral pharmacology and he credits primarily Drs. Robert Harris, Charles Schuster, Louis...