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Candace Pert
Candace Beebe Pert (June 26, 1946 – September 12, 2013) was an American neuroscientist and pharmacologist who discovered the opioid receptor, the cellular binding site for endorphins in the brain.
She was born on June 26, 1946, in Manhattan, New York City.
She completed her undergraduate studies in biology, cum laude in 1970 from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania.
In 1974, Candace Pert earned a Ph.D. in pharmacology from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she worked in the laboratory of Solomon Snyder and discovered the brain's opiate receptor.
Pert conducted a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Department of Pharmacology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 1974 to 1975. She conducted research at the National Institute of Mental Health from 1975 to 1987.
In 1983, she became the Chief of the Section on Brain Biochemistry of the Clinical Neuroscience Branch, the only female chief at NIMH.
She left to found and direct a private biotech laboratory in 1987.
Pert was a research professor in the department of physiology and biophysics at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C.
Candace Pert
Candace Beebe Pert (June 26, 1946 – September 12, 2013) was an American neuroscientist and pharmacologist who discovered the opioid receptor, the cellular binding site for endorphins in the brain.
She was born on June 26, 1946, in Manhattan, New York City.
She completed her undergraduate studies in biology, cum laude in 1970 from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania.
In 1974, Candace Pert earned a Ph.D. in pharmacology from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she worked in the laboratory of Solomon Snyder and discovered the brain's opiate receptor.
Pert conducted a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Department of Pharmacology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 1974 to 1975. She conducted research at the National Institute of Mental Health from 1975 to 1987.
In 1983, she became the Chief of the Section on Brain Biochemistry of the Clinical Neuroscience Branch, the only female chief at NIMH.
She left to found and direct a private biotech laboratory in 1987.
Pert was a research professor in the department of physiology and biophysics at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C.