CPDA Conference 2025

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“All Posted Schedules are Subject to Change Without Notice”

Confirmed Speakers

Arthur Christopoulos

Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University

Brian Kobilka

Professor, Molecular and Cellular Physiology Stanford University

Zoe McGelligot

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Department of Pharmacology Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies UNC School of Medicine

Lorenzo Leggio

Senior Investigator: Translational Addiction Medicine Branch,
Joint NIDA/NIAAA Clinical Psychoneuroendocrinology and Neuropsychopharmacology Section
NIDA-IRP

Joji Suzuki

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical SchoolCollege of Pharmacy,
University of Kentucky

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

Daniel Wacker

Associate Professor, Pharmacological Sciences, Neuroscience Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Charles Nichols

Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Louisiana State University, Health Sciences Center, New Orleans
University of Southern California

John M. Streicher

Professor Neuroscience – GIDP, Professor Pharmacology College of Medicine, Tuscon, University of Arizona

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