Faculty Promotions and Appointments
Faculty appointments and promotions were announced at a
recent meeting of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) Board
of Directors.
Promotions include:
- Koki Inoue, adjunct associate professor in the
Department of Neuropharmacology. A member of TSRI since
April 2000 and a lecturer at Osaka City University Medical
School, Inoue (M.D., Ph.D., Osaka City University Medical
School) is developing animal models of binge eating to identify
the neurochemical bases of stress-related eating disorders.
In related work, he is examining the role of stress-related
neuropeptides such as corticotropin-releasing factor and
the urocortins, in the regulation of food intake in non-pathological
conditions.
- Serge Ahmed, adjunct assistant professor in the
Department of Neuropharmacology. Ahmed (D.E.U.G., Licence,
Maitrise, D.E.A., Ph.D., University of Bordeaux II), who
has been at TSRI since 1996, is interested in models that
explain the underlying neurobiological processes of drug
addiction. In collaboration with several researchers at
TSRI, he is investigating: brain-expressed genes associated
with increased drug consumption; alterations in dopamine
transmission in the nucleus accumbens, a key region in the
forebrain involved in drug reward; potential alterations
in brain reward function during the transition to excessive
drug consumption; and the dynamic aspect of drug intake
regulation and dysregulation in computer simulation experiments.
- Kazuhiro Kakimi, adjunct assistant professor in
the Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine. Kakimi
(M.D., Ph.D., Kyoto University), who has been affiliated
with TSRI since 1996 and also holds the position of assistant
professor at Tokyo Medical University, is interested in
the immunology of viral infections, including that of the
leukemia virus, murine AIDS virus, mammary tumor virus,
and Hepatitis B.
New appointments include:
- Dianne McKay, assistant professor in the Department
of Immunology. McKay (B.S., University of California, Berkeley;
M.D., University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical
School) comes to TSRI from Harvard Medical School (Dana
Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hosptial).
She is interested in T lymphocyte activation and T cell
anergy, lymphocyte signal transduction, and IL-2R-mediated
signal transduction.
- Bonno Bouma, adjunct professor in the Department
of Molecular and Experimental Medicine. Bouma (M.S., Ph.D.,
University of Utrecht), who is also professor at the University
of Utrecht in The Netherlands, is interested in the biochemistry
of hemostasis (the stoppage of blood flow through a blood
vessel or the stoppage of bleeding) and thrombosis (the
formation of blood clots).
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