Brinton Named to Blue Ribbon Panel
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The panel is convened every 10 years to advise leaders of the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Mental Health on the direction and development of the latter group’s intramural research program for the coming decade.
The panel is chaired by Solomon Snyder of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. A host of neuroscience experts from the nation’s top universities make up the panel membership.
“It is an honor to serve with this group,” said Brinton, who holds the R. Pete Vanderveen Chair in Therapeutic Discovery and Development. “My colleagues on the committee include a Nobel laureate and members of the National Academy of Science and come from the leading universities in the nation.”
The work of the panel revolves around a review of the National Institute of Mental Health’s Division of Intramural Research Programs. In this division, scientists investigate a full range of subjects – from mechanisms of brain function at the cellular and molecular levels to clinical investigations into the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental illness.
The blue ribbon panel sets the course for the development and direction of the division’s research efforts in the next 10 years. This, in turn, impacts the direction of extramural research, as the National Institutes of Health strive to create a complementary environment between the two.
Brinton is currently the primary investigator on a four-school, $8 million grant examining the impact of hormone therapy on the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
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