Meet the PI Lectures

Join us for the first Meet the PI lecture of the academic year featuring the research of Matthew MacDonald, PhD. Dr. Matthew MacDonald earned his PhD in pharmacology from the University of Pennsylvania and completed his postdoctoral research at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry in the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-funded Training in Transformative Discovery in Psychiatry T32 program. His research program uses mass spectrometry to analyze protein networks in human post-mortem brain tissue. Dr.

Our Meet the PI lecture series continues on November 11th when we will feature the research of Zachary Freyberg, MD, PhD. Dr. Freyberg’s research focuses on improving our understanding of how the mechanisms of dopaminergic neurotransmission are associated with disorders such as addiction, schizophrenia, and Parkinson’s disease.

Join us on November 18th when we will feature the research of Dana Tudorascu, PhD, as part of our Meet the PI lecture series. 

Our Meet the PI lecture series continues on December 9, 2022 when we will feature the research of Andrea Goldschmidt, PhD.

The Department welcomes Marta Peciña, MD, PhD, on December 16, 2022 for our next Meet the PI lecture.