Angus Clark Nairn PhD

Charles B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Pharmacology

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Departments & Organizations

Affiliated Faculty

NIDA Neuroproteomics Center

Neuroscience Microarray Center, Yale

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

Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program

Pharmacology: Neuropharmacology

Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center

Psychiatry: Connecticut Mental Health Center | Molecular Psychiatry | Specialized Center of Research (SCOR) on Sex and Gender Factors Affecting Women's Health | Stress & Addiction Clinical Research Program

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Biography

Angus Nairn did his undergraduate training in biochemistry at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and his PhD in muscle biochemistry in the laboratory of Professor Sam Perry at Birmingham University, England. He then carried out postdoctoral research in molecular neuroscience with Professor Paul Greengard at Yale, and moved with Professor Greengard to Rockefeller University in 1983 as a faculty member. He moved back to Yale University in 2001, where he is currently the Charles B.G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry. He also holds a joint appointment in the Department of Pharmacology and is co-director of the Yale/National Institute of Drug Abuse Neuroproteomics Center at the Yale School of Medicine.