Dr.
Charles B. Nemeroff was born in New York City in 1949 and educated
in the New York City Public School System. After graduating from
the City College of New York in 1970, an interest in neuroscience
led him to a research assistant's position at McLean Hospital in
Belmont, Massachusetts. He simultaneously enrolled in graduate school
at Northeastern University and received a Master's degree in Biology
in 1973. He then relocated to North Carolina and enrolled in the
PhD program in Neurobiology at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. After a year of post-doctoral training in neurochemistry,
he enrolled in medical school at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. His residency training in psychiatry was conducted
at both the University of North Carolina and at Duke University,
after which he joined the faculty of Duke University. At Duke he
was Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology and Chief of the Division
of Biological Psychiatry before relocating in 1991 to Emory University
School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, where he is the Reunette
W. Harris Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences. He has concentrated on the biological basis
of the major neuropsychiatric disorders, including affective disorders,
schizophrenia, and anxiety disorders.
Dr.
Nemeroff has received numerous honors during his career, including
the A.E. Bennett Award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry
(1979), the Curt P. Richter Award from the International Society
of Psychoneuroendocrinology (1985), the Judith Silver Memorial Young
Scientist Award from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
(1989), and both the Kempf Award in Psychobiology (1989), the Samuel
Hibbs Award (1990), the Gold Medal Award from the Society of Biological
Psychiatry and the Research Prize (1996) from the American Psychiatric
Association. In 1993 he was awarded the Edward J. Sachar Award from
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Edward
A. Strecker Award from The Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital. In
1997, he was the recipient of the Gerald Klerman Award from the
National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Disorders Association and
the Selo Prize from the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia
and Depression. In 1998 he was the recipient of the Research Award
in Mood Disorders from the American College of Psychiatrists and
in 1999 he received the Bowis Award from the same organization.
He was awarded the Menninger Prize in 2000 from the American College
of Physicians, the Research Award from the American Foundation for
Suicide Prevention in 2001, and the Burlingame Prize from the Institute
of Living in 2002. Dr. Nemeroff is the Editor-in-Chief of Neuropsychopharmacology..
With Alan F. Schatzberg, MD, he is co-Editor of the Textbook of
Psychopharmacology published by the American Psychiatric Association
Press. He has served on the Mental Health Advisory Council of the
National Institutes of Mental Health and the Biomedical Research
Council for NASA. He is past President of the American College of
Neuropsychopharmacology and the American College of Psychiatrists.
In 2002 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine.
He
is currently the recipient of several research grants from the NIH,
including a Conte Center for the Neurobiology of Major Mental Disorders,
and has published more than 700 research reports and reviews.