CPDA Conference 2025

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“All Posted Schedules are Subject to Change Without Notice”

Confirmed Speakers

Yiorgos Skiniotis

Director, Center of Excellence for Structural Cell Biology, Department of Structural Biology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Lakshmi Devi

Professor of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Psychiatry and Neuroscience 
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Amy Janes

Chief, Cognitive and Pharmacological Neuroimaging Section, 
NIDA-IRP

Bryan Roth

Michael Hooker Distinguished Professor, Pharmacology Director, NIMH Psychoactive Drug Screening Program, Eshelman School of Pharmacy Fellow of the American Academy of Arts And Sciences, Member of the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy Of Sciences, Member, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Tom Prisinzano

Professor and Chair, Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy,
University of Kentucky

Margaret Haney

Professor of Neurobiology (in Psychiatry), Director of Cannabis Research Laboratory, Co-Director of Substance Use Research Center, Columbia University Medical Center, Columbia University

Pascal Kaeser

Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Neurobiology,
Harvard Medical School

Christian Hendershot

Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, 
University of Southern California

Kaavya Krishna Kumar

Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, 
Weill Cornell Medicine

Aron Lichtman

Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Interim Vice Chair of Research
Department of Pediatrics,  School of Medicine,
Virginia Commonwealth University

Jill Turner

Associate Professor,  Pharmaceutical Sciences Department,
College of Pharmacy
University of Kentucky

James Allen Frank

Assistant Professor of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry,
School of Medicine, Joint Appointment, Vollum Institute
Oregon Health and Science Universit

Juan Gomez

Staff Scientist, Biobehavioral Imaging and Molecular Neurophsychopharmacology Section, NIDA, IRP

Robert Nshimiyimana

Research Fellow, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury (CETRI), Department of Anesthesiology, Harvard Medical School

Lei Xie

Professor, Center for Drug Discovery, Northeastern University

Marco Praventoni

Professor, Rick L. Seaver Endowed Professorship for Brain Wellness, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences University of Washington, Medicine

Martin Kaczocha

Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology,  Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University

Michael Palfreyman

President of Palfreyman BioPharm Advisors, Senior Advisor for R&D at Cybin, Inc.

Kenner C. Rice

Senior Investigator, Molecular Targets and Medications Discovery Branch,
Chief Drug Design and Synthesis Section
National Institute on Drug Abuse

Marta Filizola

Sharon & Frederick A. Klingenstein-Nathan G. Kase, MD Professor Dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai.

Cornelius Gati

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Chemistry and Quantitative and Computational Biology USC Dornsife

Christie Fowler

Professor & Chancellor’s Fellow, Neurobiology and Behavior School of Biological Sciences University of California, Irvine.

Ryan Logan

Professor Of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts, Chan Medical School

Andrew Riley

Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Illinois Chicago.

Sergi Ferre

Chief, Integrative Neurobiology Section
NIDA

Javier Garcia Nafria

Group Leader, Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI) and Laboratorio de Microscopías Avanzadas (LMA), University of Zaragoza, Spain.

Mike Michaelides

Senior Investigator & Chief, Biobehavioral Imaging and Molecular Neuropsychopharmacology Unit
NIDA

Ron Dror

Cheriton Family Professor of Computer Science, Structural Biology and Molecular & Cellular Physiology
Stanford University

Hideaki Yano

Assistant Professor
Center for Drug Discovery

Susruta Majumdar

Professor, Center for Clinical Pharmacology Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Patrick Rothwell

Associate Professor of Neuroscience
MnDRIVE Neuromodulation Scholar Department of Neuroscience
University of Minnesota.

Wolfgang Sadee

Felts Mercer Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology Director, Center for Pharmacogenomics Ohio State University, Wexner Medical Center

D. Craig Hopp

Deputy Director, Division of Extramural Research National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health

Robert W. Gould

Assistant Professor, Translational Neuroscience School of Medicine
Wake Forest University

Andrea Hohmann

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences Jack and Linda Gill Chair, Gill Center for Biomolecular Science
Indiana University Bloomington

Vsevolod Katrich

Professor of Quantitative and Computational Biology and Chemistry University of Southern California

Laura Bohn

Chair And Professor, Department Of Molecular Medicine The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation and Technology

Cornelius Gati

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Chemistry and Quantitative and Computational Biology USC Dornsife

Jun Zhu

Professor. Drug Discovery & Biomedical Sciences
University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy

Jen Meiler

Distinguished Research Professor
Vanderbilt University

Rohit Kulkarni

Senior Investigator and Margeret A. Congleton Professor
Section Head, Islet Cell and Regenerative Biology
Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School

John Salamone

Professor and Director of Behavioral Neuroscience
University of Connecticut

Jane Acri

Senior Scientist. Division of Preclinical Innovation
Early Translation Branch
NIDA, Acting Chief Division of Therapeutics and Medical Consequences

Markos Georgiades

Senior Research Student
Center for Drug Discovery

Sergiy Tyukhtenko

Research Associate
Center for Drug Discovery

Gerhard Wagner

Elkan Blout Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Medical School