Michael A. Nader, PhD, Professor of Translational Neuroscience and Radiology, recently received the Peter B. Dews Lifetime Achievement Award in Behavioral Pharmacology from the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET), which recognizes lifetime achievements in research, teaching, and professional service in the field of Behavioral Pharmacology.
The award was presented to Dr. Nader by the Division for Behavioral Pharmacology during the ASPET 2024 Annual Meeting in Arlington, VA. As a behavioral neuropharmacologist and director of the Center for Addiction Research, Nader’s research interests are in the areas of substance abuse, sex differences, nonhuman primate models of social behavior, and brain imaging, to name a few and examines individual differences in drug effects using a multitude of variables that influence outcome.
With over 35 years in the field, Dr. Nader received this award in recognition of his productive and innovative research, his teaching and mentoring of students and his long-standing service to the field of behavioral pharmacology. Congratulations to Dr. Nader on this well-deserved honor and an extraordinary career.