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2011 Winter Meeting Original Communication Winner
Congratulations to Orla Power (WP1), University of Limerick who presented the best Poster Communication entitled A comparison of the insulinotropic and enterogastric response to ingestion of an equiva
Dr John Cryan
Contact Details
School of Pharmacy,
Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics,
University College Cork
Tel: +353 21 4901676
Email: j.cryan@ucc.ie
Academic Background
John F. Cryan received a B.Sc. (Hons) in Biochemistry and a PhD in Pharmacology from the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. He spent 15 months as a visiting fellow at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Australia. This was followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, where he investigated pharmacological and genetic approaches to antidepressant action. Subsequently, he held a senior post-doctoral position at the Department of Neuropharmacology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California. Prior to joining UCC in 2005, he spent four years at the Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research in Basel, Switzerland, as a Laboratory Head in Behavioural Pharmacology, where his research group was responsible for the pre-clinical characterisation of novel therapeutic targets and ligands for psychiatric disorders. He is currently Senior Lecturer in the School of Pharmacy and in the Dept. Pharmacology & Therapeutics and is a Principal Investigator in the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre. At Food for Health Ireland, Dr. Cryan works with Professor Ted Dinan on work programme 6a, that aims to identify milk components with a positive impact on body weight.
Research Interests
John Cryan's research interests include understanding the pathophysiology and developing novel treatments for psychiatric disorders such as depression and anxiety and diseases of the brain-gut axis including, obesity and irritable bowel syndrome.
Publications and Awards
He has published over 65 papers and has a H-index of 27. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of journals including Brain Research, Behavioural Pharmacology and Psychopharmacology and is the Executive Editor of Neuropharmacology and Associate Editor Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience.
In 2004, he received the Novartis Neuroscience Recognition Award; in September 2005 he was honoured with the Young Scientist Award at the biennial European Behavioural Pharmacology Society meeting; he has received the Wyeth Psychopharmacology Award from the British Association of Psychopharmacology (July 2006), and the ECNP Fellowhip Award from the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (Sept 2006).