CURE ADDICTION NOW - Key Persons
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- Phyllis and Jerome Lyle Rappaport Chair in Psychiatry / Chief, Basic Neuroscience Division Director, SPARED Center @ McLean
William (Bill) Carlezon, PhD, is a Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School. His lab is based at McLean Hospital, where he holds the Phyllis and Jerome Lyle Rappaport Chair in Psychiatry and serves as Chief of the Basic Neuroscience Division as well as Director of an NIMH Silvio O. Conte Center focusing on interactions between traumatic stress and sleep. Dr. Carlezon is primarily interested in the biological basis and treatment of neuropsychiatric illness, specifically nature/nurture issues as they relate to the brain and the basic processes by which the brain develops and is modified in response to experience. His lab is currently studying how the environment affects behavior and the biology of the brain, and developing and implementing translationally-relevant (cross-species) endpoints (including sleep) for analysis. "Environment" can mean many things, including exposure to drugs of abuse, stress, trauma, toxins, or illness. This work is relevant to many types of neuropsychiatric disorders, including addiction, depression, anxiety, PTSD, and autism. He has received numerous awards for his research, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President George W. Bush, the Jacob P. Waletzky Award for Innovative Research in Drug Addiction and Alcoholism from the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), and the Daniel Efron Award from the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP). He is the Principal Editor of Neuropsychopharmacology (NPP), and a chartered member of NIDA's Board of Scientific Councilors.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Chief Scientific Officer at Delix Therapeutics
Kurt Rasmussen, Ph.D., is the Chief Scientific Officer at Delix Therapeutics, a new company focused on developing neuroplasticity-promoting therapeutics for multiple indications, including substance use disorders. Previous to Delix, he was the Director of the Division of Therapeutics and Medical Consequences at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), leading their efforts to promote the development of safe and effective pharmacotherapies, behavioral therapies, and devices to treat substance use disorders. Previous to NIDA, he worked as a senior research scientist in the Neuroscience Division of Eli Lilly & Co., leading efforts to discover novel treatments for psychiatric disorders such as depression and schizophrenia. Dr. Rasmussen's career spans over 30 years of highly innovative scientific research in neuroscience pharmaceutical discovery, from hypothesis generation to clinical candidate evaluation. He received his B.A. with honors and distinction from Cornell University, his Ph.D. in neuroscience and psychology from Princeton University, and was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine.
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- Co - Founder
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- President
"By focusing on the most high-risk/high-return research at the earliest stages, when it is most difficult to obtain federal funding, the Cure Addiction Now (CAN) Foundation is having a profoundly positive impact on our understanding of substance use disorders (SUDs). CAN's efforts are likely to catalyze the development of entirely new classes of new treatment for SUDs."
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Advisory Board