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David H. Farb, Ph.D. is a Professor and has served since 1990 as Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at the Boston University School of Medicine, where he also serves as Director of the Program in Biomedical Neuroscience. Additionally, he is Director of the university-wide interdisciplinary NIGMS-funded Biomolecular Pharmacology Training Program, the interdepartmental Program in Biomedical Neuroscience and heads the Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology. Dr. Farb chairs the Executive Committee for the Medical Sciences Training Program and is a member of the Bioinformatics Program. He is currently President of New England Pharmacologists Chapter of ASPET. Prior to joining BU, Dr. Farb was a full professor with tenure and Head of the Molecular Pharmacology Research Program at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center. He also was elected Presiding Officer of the Graduate School at SUNY. While in New York, Dr. Farb was elected Chair of the Section of Biological Sciences at the New York Academy of Sciences, where he subsequently founded the Section of Neuroscience. He received his B.A. in Chemistry from Long Island University and the Ph.D. in Biochemistry at Brandeis University. Dr. Farb’s current research is directed toward understanding the mechanisms of action of abused substances and steroid hormones and their interactions with excitatory and inhibitory amino acid receptors in the central nervous system. The research also focuses on the mechanism of action and discovery of neuromodulators as therapeutic agents and on the structure, function, and cellular dynamics of ion channels and receptors in the brain and spinal cord. | 