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Scripps Clinj-c investigator receives
Einstein Award for psvchiatrv research
IA JOLIA, Nov. 16 -- A Research Institute
investigator
of Scripps Clinic
has been awarded the Einstein Award for Research in
PsychiaLry and Relat.ed Disciplines
for his studies on peptides in the
brain and behavior requlation.
Dr. Floyd Bloom, head of the Scripps Clinic
and endocrinology division
arxl director
preclinical
neuroscierce
of the Scripps Clinic-Salk
Institute-UCSD Alcohol Research Center, received the award at the recent
Fifth
Einstein
Synposiun in Psychiatryr
"NeirrBiological
Vistas on
Schizophreniar" at the New York Academyof I'ledicine, Nan York City.
Past recipients
include B.F. Skinner, tlarvard University;
SalanronSnyder, Johns tlop<ins University;
Dr.
and Dr. Robert tlinde, Cambridge
University.
Bloorn shares Lhe awarclwith Dr. David de lVied, cltairnan of ttre
tudolph I'lagnus Institute
of Pharnacology' Utrecht,
(More)
Netherlands.
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The award is given annually by tire Albert Einstein College of
Medicine, Brorx, Nsp York, to an investigator whp has made fundamental
contributions
to the studlz of abnornnl hunnn beLnvior.
Blocrn was named for his work in the field of neuropeptides and
for studies on how peptides nediate
belravioral regulation - specifically,
signals between brain cell-s.
Blocrn has been with Scripps Clinic
since 1983. From 1975-83' he was
of the Arthur Vining Davis Center for Behavioral Neurobiology at
were with the Natiornl Institute
the SaIk Institute. Farlier affiliations
of t4ental llealth and Yale Utriversity l'ledical Sctrool
director
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