Dorit Ron, PhD.

Professor of Neurology, and Endowed Chair in Cell Builogy of Addiction in Neurology
Member, Neuroscience Graduate Program
Member, Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program
Member, Pharmaceutical Science and Pharmacogenomics Graduate Program

Dr. Ron is a Professor in the Department of Neurology, a member of the Alcohol and Addiction Research Group at the University of California San Francisco. She is also the Endowed Chair in Cell Biology of Addiction in Neurology at UCSF, and the Director of a NIH-NIAAA-funder Center. Dr. Ron has dedicated the last 17 years to alcohol addiction research, and she is a recipient of an NIAAA MERIT award. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Neuroscience, Addiction Biology and the Alcohol Journal. She is also a review editor for Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience as well as a field editor for the journal of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. Dr. Ron’s research focuses on the molecular neurobiology of alcohol use disorders for which her laboratory uses molecular, electrophysiological and rodent behavioral approaches to study molecular signaling that promote or prevent the development and maintenance of alcohol drinking behaviors. Over the years her group has made numerous major contributions to the field of alcohol research, and her studies have been published in high impact journals, such as Nature Neuroscience, PNAS, Molecular Psychiatry, Neuron, Biological Psychiatry and others. Several of the studies resulted in press releases, which received significant attention from both the scientific community and the general public. Finally, she recently was invited to write a review on the topic of her work, which was published this year in Nature Reviews Neuroscience.

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