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Leonard Cook, Ph.D., is Recipient of the 2006 P.B.
Dews Lifetime Achievement Award in Behavioral Pharmacology.
Dr. Leonard Cook, retired from the DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical
Company, is the winner of the 2006 P.B. Dews Lifetime
Achievement Award in Behavioral Pharmacology. The award is given
every other year and honors the fundamental contributions of P.B.
Dews to behavioral pharmacology.
Dr. Cook is internationally recognized as one of the foremost
pioneers in behavioral pharmacology. He has contributed
substantially to the discovery and evaluation of
psychotherapeutics, and to the career development of behavioral
pharmacologists, who in their turn have been leaders in the
field. Dr. Cook has established drug behavioral interactions
that are presently taught as classical principles in this field.
Dr. Cook earned his Ph.D. from Yale University School of
Medicine and subsequently joined Smith Kline & French
Laboratories where he played a dominant role in the discovery of
the first drugs for schizophrenia as well as in the early
development of their Department of Pharmacology. Dr. Cook later
joined Hoffmann-LaRoche where he was appointed Director of
Pharmacology and led research in the identification of drugs for
treating anxiety. In 1983 he joined DuPont de Nemours as
director of their CNS research and expanded their CNS research
program to focus on Alzheimer's disease therapy. Throughout his
career, Dr. Cook has set the standard for CNS drug discovery
programs in industry.
Dr. Cook has held academic posts as adjunct professor of
pharmacology at Temple Medical School and in psychiatry at the
University of Pennsylvania. He was also visiting professor of
pharmacology at Bejing and Shanghai Medical Schools.
Dr. Cook will be presented the 2006 P.B. Dews Lifetime
Achievement Award in Behavioral Pharmacology on Saturday, April
1 at 7:00 p.m. at the Awards Ceremony of the Annual Meeting of
the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental
Therapeutics/Experimental Biology (EB) 2006 Meeting in San
Francisco, California. The Awards Ceremony will be held at the
Moscone Convention Center, West Building, Room 2002.
His lecture is titled “Reflections on my career in
psychopharmacology“ and will be delivered on April 3 from 1:30 –
2:30 pm in room 303 at the Moscone Convention Center.
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About the
PB Dews Award
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P. B.
Dews Award Committee
Jonathan Katz (2008), Chair
Nancy A. Ator (2006)
Roger D. Spealman (2007)
J. David Leander (2008)
Robert L. Balster (2008) |
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