Marina R. Picciotto, Ph.D.

Marina R. Picciotto, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry, pharmacology and neurobiology, has received a $100,000 Independent Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression for a project on new antidepressant targets in the brain. Picciotto will study the antidepressant effect of blocking the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor.