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Dr. Paul Greengard is the Vincent Astor Professor of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience at The Rockefeller University. He began his exploration of nerve cells in 1948 when he joined the Johns Hopkins biophysics laboratory then headed by Detlev Bronk. After receiving his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1953, Greengard spent five years in England receiving advanced training in brain biochemistry at the University of London, at Cambridge University, and at the National Institute of Medical Research.
Upon his return to the United States, Greengard worked as Director of the Department of Biochemistry at Geigy Research Laboratories, in Ardsley, New York for eight years. He has remained intensely interested in the applications of basic scientific knowledge to the development of therapeutic agents for treatment of various neurological and psychiatric diseases. In 1967, he left the pharmaceutical industry to return to academia. He spent one year as Visiting Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. From 1968 to 1983 Greengard served as Professor of Pharmacology and Psychiatry at Yale University, at which time he moved to his current position at The Rockefeller University.
Over the years, Greengard’s achievements have earned him many distinguished awards including the Metropolitan Life Foundation Award for Medical Research, The Charles A. Dana Award for Pioneering Achievements in Health, the Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience from the Society for Neuroscience, The National Academy of Sciences Award in the Neurosciences, the Bristol-Myers Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research, the 3M Life Sciences Award of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. In the year 2000, Greengard was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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