Donard S. Dwyer
LSU Health Sciences Center, USA
Biography
Dr. Donard Dwyer received his Ph.D. from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. After a postdoctoral fellowship there, he was Staff Scientist at the Max-Planck-Society Laboratories in Würzburg, Germany. He then joined the faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham for six years before becoming department head at a start-up biotechnology company in Cambridge, MA. For the past 20 years, Dr. Dwyer has been a member of the faculty in the Departments of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, Toxicology and Neuroscience at LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, LA. He is currently Professor and Vice-Chair for Research in Psychiatry. His research focuses on understanding and treating neuropsychiatric illnesses, including schizophrenia, and movement disorders. At present, Dr. Dwyer’s group is seeking to identify pharmacological agents to correct movement deficits caused by mutations in leak-current channel genes.
Abstract
Abstract : Plugging the Leaks – New Drug Discovery Based on Leak Current Channels