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: We are developing tools for measuring the real-time release of neuropeptides in freely behaving animals using new biosensors (i.e., CNiFERs) and custom-made Miniscopes. Project: We are developing nanovesicles engineered for photorelease of drugs in vivo in real-time.