The Polymathic Pharmacologist

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, pharmacology emerged as a cutting edge branch of chemistry aligned with medical practice.  In recent decades, pharmacological research has expanded its methodology to encompass a comprehensive range of molecular, chemical, and biological perspectives, while at the same time becoming increasingly integrated into medical research and practice.  In the same period, pharmacology has branched out into psychotropic research as a crucial element not only of medical practice, but also as a pathway towards an understanding of the relation between Gene and behaviors.  In this discussion, University Professor and Boyd & Elsie Welin Professor Jean C. Shih, a two-time recipient of the prestigious MERIT Award, will discuss the integrated interdisciplinary nature of pharmacology in the twenty-first century.