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Dr. James W. Simpkins received his B. S, and M. S. degrees from the University of Toledo and in 1977 received a Ph.D. Degree in Physiology from Michigan State University. He joined the faculty at the University of Florida, College of Pharmacy in 1997 and rose through the ranks to the position of Professor of Pharmacodynamics. He has served as Chairman of the Department of Pharmacodynamics, Chairman of the Department of Pharmaceutics, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies and Director, Center for the Neurobiology of Aging at the University of Florida. In 1996, Dr. Simpkins was appointed as the Frank Duckworth Professor of Drug Discovery at the University of Florida. He has more than 295 peer-reviewed publications, a dozen patents for his discoveries and has edited two texts on Alzheimer's disease therapy. He also served as the Director of the University of Florida Drug Discovery Group for Alzheimer's disease, which has sustained funding by the National Institute on Aging to support research in the pharmacotherapy for Alzheimer's disease. In 1999 he was appointed to the Medical and Scientific Advisory Council of the National Alzheimer's Association. In July of 2000, he became the Chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience and Director, Institute for Aging and Alzheimer's Disease Research at the University of North Texas Health Science at Fort Worth.
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