Marina Picciotto PhD

Charles B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Neurobiology and of Pharmacology; Assistant Chair for Basic Science Research, Dept. of Psychiatry

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Departments & Organizations

Affiliated Faculty

Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Neuroscience | Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology

Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program

Neurobiology: Kavli Institute for Neuroscience

Pharmacology: Neuropharmacology

Psychiatry: Connecticut Mental Health Center | Molecular Psychiatry | CENTURY | Yale Translational Center to Develop Gender-Sensitive Treatment for Tobacco Dependence

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Biography

Dr. Picciotto joined the Yale faculty in 1995, after completing a postdoctoral fellowship with Jean-Pierre Changeux in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. She earned a Ph.D. in Molecular Neurobiology at The Rockefeller University in New York City in 1992, where she worked in the Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience under Paul Greengard. She received a B.S. degree in biological sciences from Stanford University, Stanford, California, in 1985.

Dr. Picciotto serves on the Scientific Council of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Society for Neuroscience. She was a Senior Editor of the Journal of Neuroscience from 2006-2012 and is currently Handling Editor of the Journal of Nicotine and Tobacco Research. She is a past member of the Neurobiology of Motivated Behavior NIH Study Section. In 2000 she was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering by President Clinton and in 2007, she was honored with the Jacob P. Waletzky Memorial Award for Innovative Research in Drug Addiction and Alcoholism by the Society for Neuroscience. She was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2012.