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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.