Leadership
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Robert O. Messing, M.D.
M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Chair in Molecular Biology | Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience | Chair, Department of Neuroscience | Director, Waggoner Center for Alcohol & Addiction ResearchDr. Messing joined the Center in 2013 and became its director in 2017. He has coauthored over 150 articles, book chapters and reviews and is a recognized authority on the neurobiology of addiction. His major interests are in alcohol and opioid use disorders, and co-morbid pain, anxiety, and mood disorders. He received an MD in 1979 from Stanford University and trained in Neurology at UCSF from 1981-1984, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience at UCSF from 1984-86 with David A. Greenberg, M.D., Ph.D. He was a faculty member in Neurology at UCSF from 1986 until 2013 when he moved to UT Austin as Vice Provost for Biomedical Sciences to help launch the Dell Medical School. Dr. Messing was recipient of the 2002 MERIT Award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and was founding Director of the NIAAA funded Alcohol Center for Translational Genetics at UCSF.
Affiliated Faculty
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Jennifer Donegan
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences -
Joseph Dunsmoor
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience -
Johann K. Eberhart
Associate Professor of Molecular Biosciences -
Lief Fenno
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience -
Kim Fromme
Professor of Clinical Psychology | Director, Studies on Alcohol, Health, and Risky Activities (SAHARA) Laboratory -
Rueben A. Gonzales
Professor of Pharmacy | Jacques P. Servier Regents Professor in Pharmacy -
R. Adron Harris
Emeritus: M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Chair in Molecular Biology | Director, Integrative Neuroscience Initiative on Alcoholism (INIA) | Associate Director, Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research -
Lucas G. Hill
Clinical Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice -
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Deborah Jacobvitz
Phyllis L. Richards Endowed Professor of Child Development -
Elizabeth Lippard
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry -
Regina Mangieri
Research Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology -
Michela Marinelli
Associate Professor of Neuroscience -
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Esther Melamed
Assistant Professor of Neurology -
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Hitoshi Morikawa
Associate Professor of Neuroscience -
Luis Natividad
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology -
Charles B. Nemeroff
Chair and Professor of Psychiatry | Director, Institute for Early Life Adversity Research -
Kimberly Nixon
Professor | James T. Doluisio Fellow in the Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology -
Caitlin Orsini
Assistant Professor of Psychology -
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Mary M. Velasquez
Centennial Professor in Leadership for Community, Professional and Corporate Excellence; Director, Health Behavior Research and Training Institute