Marina Picciotto, PhD

Charles B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Neurobiology and of Pharmacology; Assistant Chair for Basic Science Research, Dept. of Psychiatry

Departments & Organizations

Affiliated Faculty

Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Neuroscience | Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology

Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program

Neurobiology

Pharmacology: Neuropharmacology

Psychiatry: Molecular Psychiatry | CENTURY: Principal Investigators | Stress & Addiction Clinical Research Program | Division of Women's Behavioral Health Research

Biography

Dr. Picciotto joined the Yale faculty in 1995, after completing a postdoctoral fellowship with Jean-Pierre Changeux in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. She earned a Ph.D. in Molecular Neurobiology at The Rockefeller University in New York City in 1992, where she worked in the Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience under Paul Greengard. She received a B.S. degree in biological sciences from Stanford University, Stanford, California, in 1985.

She is currently Senior Editor in the Behavioral/Cognitive/Systems section of the Journal of Neuroscience and Handling Editor of the Journal of Nicotine and Tobacco Research and is a past member of the Neurobiology of Motivated Behavior NIH Study Section. In 2000 she was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering by President Clinton and in 2007, she was honored with the Jacob P. Waletzky Memorial Award for Innovative Research in Drug Addiction and Alcoholism by the Society for Neuroscience.

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Education

B.S., Stanford University, 1985
Ph.D., Rockefeller University, 1992

Selected Publication

Mineur, Y.S., Abizaid, A., Rao, Y., Salas, R., DiLeone, R.J., Gündisch, D., Diano, S., De Biasi, M., Horvath, T.L., Gao, X.-B. and Picciotto, M.R. (2011) Nicotine decreases food intake through activation of POMC neurons, Science, 332(6035): 1330-2.