Paul Slesinger | Mount Sinai

About Me

Paul Slesinger PhD is Lillian and Henry M. Stratton Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Center for Neurotechnology and Behavior. Our long-term objective is to discover new drugs for treating addiction to drugs of abuse and alcohol. We focus on changes in neuronal excitability with drugs, and take a broad approach of combining structural biology, biochemistry, electrophysiology and behavior. Visit Paul Slesinger's Laboratory of Membrane Excitability & Disease for more details.

Language

English

Position

PROFESSOR | Neuroscience, PROFESSOR | Pharmacological Sciences, VICE CHAIR FOR NASH DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSCIENCE | Neuroscience

Research Topics

Addiction, Biophysics, Electrophysiology, Neurophysiology, Neuroscience, Protein Trafficking & Sorting, Signal Transduction, Synaptic Plasticity

Multi-Disciplinary Training Areas

Disease Mechanisms and Therapeutics (DMT), Neuroscience [NEU]

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Education

BA, Reed College

PhD, University of California, San Francisco

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco

Awards

2006

NARSAD Independent Investigator Award

2003

McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award

2001

Human Frontiers Science Program Young Investigator Grant

1999

McKnight Scholars Award in Neuroscience

1998

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow

Research

Project: Investigating the structural and molecular determinants of GIRK channel gating and modulation. Project: Investigating the neuronal activity and neurotransmitter release in the reward circuitry during alcohol intake, using fiber photometry to measure fluorescence in freely moving animals that express genetically encoded calcium and neurotransmitter indicators. Project: Investigating the physiological roles of the GIRK channels in the brain disorders, and developing pharmacological tools to modulate GIRK channels in these disorders.