Seventh Annual Central Massachusetts Regional Brain Bee
We are pleased to announce that the University of Massachusetts Medical School Department of Psychiatry along with the Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute (BNRI) will be holding its 7th Annual Central Massachusetts Regional Brain Bee on Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 1:00 pm at UMass Medical School, Worcester, MA
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Andrew R. Tapper, PhD, is serving as interim director of the Department of Psychiatry’s Irving S. and Betty Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute (BNRI).
Tapper is an associate professor who joined the department in 2006 and has been “extremely productive as a researcher, mentor, teacher, and leader in his BNRI laboratory,” according to Douglas Ziedonis, MD, MPH, department chairman.
Tapper’s research focuses on the molecular basis of nicotine addiction, with an emphasis on neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in addiction and neurological disease. Tapper and Dr. Paul Gardner co-lead their merged laboratories.
Gardner will continue to serve as the Associate Director of the BNRI. Tapper will report directly to Dr. Jean King, who will continue to provide oversight for the BNRI / CCNI in her role as vice chair of research for the Department of Psychiatry. |