Executive Title
Scientific Director
NIH Institute
National Institute of Mental Health
E-Mail
susan.amara@nih.gov
Telephone
(301) 496-3501
Address
Building 35A, Suite GE-400, Room GE-414
35A Convent Drive, MSC 3747
Bethesda, MD 20892
35A Convent Drive, MSC 3747
Bethesda, MD 20892
Education
- Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
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B.S., Stanford University
Professional Accomplishments
- Held faculty positions at Yale University School of Medicine and the Vollum Institute in Portland Oregon, and was a Howard Hughes Investigator at each of these institutions; and was the Thomas Detre Chair of Neurobiology and Distinguished Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences, fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- Recipient of several awards, including the George Herbert Hitchings Award for innovative methods in drug discovery from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, a NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award, and the Julius Axelrod Prize from the Society for Neuroscience; and has had 20 U.S. patents issued on technology from her laboratory.