Previous Award Winners

Nathan B. Eddy Memorial Award Joseph Cochin Young 1974 • Maurice Seevers Investigator Award Plenary Program 1975 • Harris Isbell 1987 • Michael Bozarth 1976 • Abraham Wikler 1988 • Frank Porreca 1977 • William Martin 1989 • Errol B. De Souza 1978 • Hans Kosterlitz 1990 • Thomas Kosten & 2005 Awards 1979 • E. Leong Way 1991 • Richard Rothman 1980 • Avram Goldstein 1992 • Jeffrey M. Witkin 1981 • Everette May 1993 • Stephen Higgins 1982 • Vincent Dole 1994 • Richard W. Foltin Sunday June 19 • Great Hall, Wyndham Palace Hotel • Orlando, Florida Marie Nyswander 1995 • Warren K. Bickel 1983 • Eric Simon 1996 • Toni Shippenberg 1984 • Raymond Houde 1997 • Lisa H. Gold 1985 • Louis Harris 1998 • S. Stevens Negus 8:30 • Welcome 1986 • Harold Kalant 1999 • Sari Izenwasser Warren K. Bickel, President, CPDD 1987 • Clifton K. Himmelsbach 2000 • Leslie Amass 1988 • Albert Herz Sharon Walsh 8:45 • Report from National Institute on Abuse 1989 • Leo E. Hollister 2001 • S. Barak Caine Nora D. Volkow, Director, NIDA 1990 • Charles Schuster 2002 • Laura Sim-Selley 1991 • Phillip S. Portoghese 2003 • Andrew Coop Akira E. Takemori 2004 • Sandra D. Comer 9:15 • Presentation of the Meritorious Service Award to Ian P. Stolerman 1992 • Joseph V. Brady Introduction by Chris-Ellyn Johanson 1993 • Lee N. Robins J. Michael Morrison Award 1994 • Jerome H. Jaffe 1986 • Edward C. Tocus 9:20 • Presentation of the Media Award to Brian Vastag 1988 • Marvin Snyder 1995 • Herbert D. Kleber Introduction by Marc J. Kaufman 1996 • Griffith Edwards 1990 • Arthur E. Jacobson 1997 • Martin W. Adler 1992 • Hans Halbach 1998 • John W. Lewis 1993 • Beny Primm 9:25 • Presentation of the Joseph Cochin Young Investigator Award to 1999 • Mary Jeanne Kreek 1995 • Jack D. Blaine Thomas E. Eissenberg 2000 • William L. Dewey 1997 • Rao Rapaka Introduction by Robert L. Balster 2001 • Kenner C. Rice 1999 • Roy W. Pickens 2002 • Horace H. Loh 2001 • Roger Brown 9:30 • Presentation of the Joseph Cochin Young Investigator Award to 2003 • Richard L. Hawks 2003 • Charles P. O’Brien James K. Rowlett 2004 • James H. Woods 2004 • Ronald Brady Introduction by William L. Woolverton Mentorship Award Media Award 2000 • Robert L. Balster 1990 • Katie McCabe 9:35 • Presentation of the Mentorship Award to Linda A. Dykstra 2001 • James H. Woods 1992 • James Burke Introduction by Alison Oliveto-Beaudoin 2002 • Conan Kornetsky 1998 • Riester Robb 2003 • Charles R. Shuster 2000 • Sean Clarkin 2004 • E. Leong Way Carlos Davila Rinaldi 9:40 • Presentation of the Nathan B. Eddy Award to Conan Kornetsky 2001 • Michael Massing Introduction by George F. Koob Distinguished Service Award 2002 • David T. Courtwright 1994 • Richard A. Millstein 2003 • Studies 9:45 • Nathan B. Eddy Award Lecture: A Walk through the History of 2002 • Alan I. Leshner Program for Journalists Drug Abuse: Research, Trends, & Fads 2003 • Francis Vocci, Jr. 2004 • Peter Reuter Charles O’ Keeffe Conan Kornetsky, Boston University School of Medicine

Meritorious Service Award Nathan B. Eddy Award

Ian P. Stolerman, Ph.D. Conan Kornetsky, Ph.D. Professor, Institute of Psychiatry Professor, Boston University School of Medicine Ian Stolerman is Professor of Behavioural Pharmacology at the Institute of Dr. Conan Kornetsky was born February Psychiatry, King's College London. He 9, 1926 in Portland, Maine. He graduated qualified in Pharmacy in 1964 and in 1943 from Portland High School, in received a Ph.D. in psychopharmacology 1948 from the University of Maine and in (University of London). His postdoctoral 1944-45 served in the Army Air Corps. He experience was at the Albert Einstein received his Ph.D. in psychology in 1952 College of Medicine (NY) and UCLA. He from the University of Kentucky, became a member of the UK Medical Lexington. Throughout his graduate Research Council Scientific Staff in 1974 program at the University of Kentucky, he and in 1980 moved to the Institute of worked in the Clinical Psychology Psychiatry, London. He is known best for Department and the Research his MRC-supported research on , Department of the USPHS Hospital in an area in which he has worked for over Lexington. His research was under the 30 years. He has also carried out NIDA-supported work on the discrimination of abused direction of Harris Isbell, Abraham Wikler and Harris Hill. In 1952-53, under the auspices drug mixtures and on the drug discrimination database. He was a founder and first of NIMH, he with Donald Gerard studied juvenile drug addiction in New York City and with President of the European Behavioural Pharmacology Society and subsequently served Murray Jarvik, 1953-54, did experiments on the effects of LSD. In 1954 he moved to NIH as President of the Society for Stimulus Properties of and of the International in Seymour Kety's Laboratory of Clinical Science where he studied behavioral effects of Society of Addiction Journal Editors. He was a member of the editorial boards of, and was the newly emerging psychotherapeutic drugs in normal and schizophrenic subjects. In a receiving editor for, several journals until, in 1992, he became Associate Editor of Drug 1959, his tenure began at Boston University School of Medicine. There he continued his and Alcohol Dependence. He was responsible for all manuscripts originating from outside studies of as well as experiments on tolerance to , often the Americas and, from that time onwards, editorial duties played a major role in his collaborating with Joseph Cochin. In the 1970's his work began to focus on the brain working life. reward system and how it was affected by substances of abuse. During the past couple of years he has directed his studies to the role of aging in response to substances of abuse.

Mentorship Award Media Award

Linda A. Dykstra, Ph.D. Brian Vastag Kenan Professor, Associate News Editor, JAMA University of North Carolina Before becoming associate news editor Dr. Linda Dykstra is a Kenan at JAMA in 2000, Brian Vastag worked as Distinguished Professor in the a press officer for the National Cancer Departments of Psychology and Institute and Johns Hopkins Medical Pharmacology and the Curriculum in Institutions. During his four years at Neurobiology at the University of North JAMA in Washington, DC, Mr. Vastag Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also Dean wrote countless news briefs and some of the Graduate School. Dr. Dykstra 100 feature articles, including profiles of received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the top scientists and examinations of the University of Chicago and her B.A. from Hope College in Holland, Michigan. Dr. Dykstra social impact of biomedical advances. has been the major research advisor for a large number of predoctoral and postdoctoral He covered extensively the National fellows and has directed a NIDA-supported training program in research related to drug Institutes of Health and Capitol Hill. As a abuse for the last 15 years. She also directs NIGMS Bridge program that is designed to freelance science journalist, Mr. Vastag specializes in addiction, brain sciences, cancer, encourage students from underrepresented groups to pursue doctoral training in the and genetics, but covers the entire breadth of biomedical research. He began his career biomedical sciences. For over 30 years, Dr. Dykstra has led an active research program, writing about space science, anthropology, evolutionary biology, sociology, and focusing on the behavioral pharmacology of , both in relation to their psychology. Mr. Vastag's training includes 18 months of graduate coursework in science pain-relieving properties as well as their tendency to produce tolerance and dependence. and technology journalism at Texas A&M University, graduate courses in genomics and A more recent research interest of her laboratory is the investigation of behavioral bioinformatics at George Washington University, and countless hours listening to some of phenotypes related to using genetically altered mice. She has received the smartest people on earth. continuous support for her research from the National Institute on Drug Abuse since 1977 and has been recognized with a Research Career Development Award, a Research Scientist Award and a MERIT award for her research contributions. Dr. Dykstra has held several professional leadership positions, including being President of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence. She is an elected member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and currently serves as Chair of the Behavioral Pharmacology Division of the American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and as Vice-President/President of the North Carolina Association of Biomedical Research.

Joseph Cochin Young Investigator Award Joseph Cochin Young Investigator Award

James K. Rowlett, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School

Dr. James K. Rowlett received his undergraduate degree from Morehead State University (1988), where he first obtained research experience under the guidance of Dr. Bruce A. Mattingly. In 1993, he received a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Kentucky under the mentorship of Dr. Michael T. Bardo. Dr. Rowlett then joined the laboratory of Dr. William L. Woolverton at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and received training in primate models of stimulant Thomas E. Eissenberg, Ph.D. and anxiolytic abuse. In 1997, Dr. Rowlett Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University moved to the New England Primate Dr. Thomas Eissenberg, Associate Professor in Virginia Commonwealth University's Research Center (NEPRC) as an Department of Psychology and Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies, obtained his Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry doctorate in experimental psychology in 1994 from McMaster University in Hamilton, at Harvard Medical School under the mentorship of Dr. Roger D. Spealman. At NEPRC, Ontario. He then spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow in the Behavioral Pharmacology he initiated research programs on anxiolytic, stimulant, and polydrug abuse. Currently, Dr. Research Unit at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine before joining the VCU Rowlett is an Assistant Professor and Supervisor of the Behavioral Pharmacology faculty in 1997. At VCU, Dr. Eissenberg's research involves understanding how gender Laboratory in the Division of Behavioral Biology at NEPRC, as well as an Associate and pharmacologic and associative factors influence tobacco use and tobacco/nicotine Scientist in the Neuroscience and Behavior Program of the University of Massachusetts withdrawal. Another research focus involves developing clinical laboratory methods that at Amherst. He has been a member of CPDD since 1994 and is a former CPDD Travel can be used to predict if potential reduced-exposure products for tobacco users will Award recipient. Dr. Rowlett is the author or co-author of more than 75 articles, reviews, actually reduce tobacco-related disease and death. He is also involved in an international and book chapters on research related to drug abuse and neuropsychiatric disorders. collaboration with the Syrian Center for Tobacco Studies to investigate the short- and long- term effects of tobacco smoking using a waterpipe. Dr. Eissenberg's work is supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Cancer Institute, and the Fogarty International Center.