Nii Addy, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, has been invited to serve as a member of the National Institutes of Health’s Neurobiology of Motivated Behavior (NMB) Study Section, Center for Scientific Review.
Addy will contribute to the national biomedical research effort by helping to review grant applications submitted to the NIH, making recommendations on the applications to appropriate NIH national advisory councils or boards, and surveying the status of existing research work.
The NMB Study Section reviews applications examining the neuronal circuits critical to the mediation of rewarding and negatively motivated behaviors, according to the NIH website. Studies reviewed by NMB utilize molecular, cellular, anatomical, and behavioral techniques, however the emphasis of these applications is the neurobiological mechanisms underlying the mediation of motivated behavior.
Addy’s term begins July 1, 2017 and ends June 30, 2023. According to Richard Nakamura, PhD, Director of the Center for Scientific Review, members are selected on the basis of their demonstrated competence and achievement in their scientific discipline as evidenced by the quality of their research accomplishments, publications in scientific journals, and other significant scientific activities, achievements, and honors.
“Service on a study section also requires mature judgment and objectivity as well as the ability to work effectively in a group, qualities we believe Dr. Addy will bring to this important task,” Nakamura said in a statement.
Addy is Principal Investigator at the Addy Lab at Yale.