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Bryan Roth
CitizenshipUSA
OccupationProfessor
Board member ofExecutive Editor,Biochemistry
AwardsMichael Hooker Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology (2006-)

Goodman and Gilman Award for Receptor Pharmacology (2016) Member, National Academy of Medicine.

Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Academic background
Alma materCarroll College, BA (1977) St. Louis University Medical School, MD, PhD (1983)
Academic work
DisciplineMolecular Pharmacology
InstitutionsUniversity of North Carolina Case Western Reserve University

Bryan L. Rothis the Michael Hooker Distinguished Professor of Protein Therapeutics and Translational Proteomics,UNC School of Medicine.[1]He is recognized for his discoveries and inventions in the general areas of molecular pharmacology, GPCR structure, and function and synthetic neurobiology. He is a member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences(AAAS) and theNational Academy of Medicine(NAM)

Education

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Roth earned his B.A. in biology fromCarroll Collegein 1977 and his M.D. and Ph.D. in biochemistry fromSaint Louis Universityin 1983. After postdoctoral training at theNational Institute of Mental Health(NIMH), he completed a psychiatry residency and fellowship atStanford Universityin 1991. The same year, he was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry atCase Western Reserve University.In 2003 he became a Professor of Biochemistry atCase Western Reserve University School of Medicinewith secondary appointments in Psychiatry, Oncology, and Neurosciences.[2]In 2007 he was appointed as the Michael Hooker Distinguished Professor of Protein Therapeutics and Translational Proteomics, UNC School of Medicine.[3]

Research

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Roth has made contributions to the fields ofG protein-coupled receptor(GPCR) pharmacology and neurobiology, particularly related to the function ofserotoninandopioid receptors.His laboratory reported the structure of aserotonin receptorbound to the hallucinogenic drug,LSD.[4][5]Other major works include identification of new probes and tools to detect GPCRs, obtained through directed evolution in animal cells,[6]developingreceptors activated solely by a synthetic ligand(DREADDs), achemogeneticplatform used to direct selective, dose-dependent activation of a specific G protein subtype in vivo.[7]Thomas Insel,then Director of NIMH, stated in 2014 that DREADDs were one of the most important breakthrough technologies for the NIHBRAIN Initiative.[8]and have been used by more than a thousand labs for interrogating neural circuits responsible for simple and complex behaviors in animals.

Awards and recognition

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Roth’s work has been recognized byScience Signalingas one of the ‘Signaling Breakthroughs of ‘2014’[9]and 2016.[10]His DREADD technology was highlighted as one of the important advances in the past 10 years inNature Chemical Biology.[11]Roth’s chemical biology discoveries have been highlighted by NIMH as one of the ‘Top 10 Research Advances of 2011’.[12][13] Roth is a member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences(AAAS) and theNational Academy of Medicine(NAM). He received theGoodman and Gilman Award in Receptor Pharmacologyfrom theAmerican Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeuticsand was a 2018Society for Neuroscience Presidential Special Lecture.

References

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  1. ^"Bryan Roth, MD, PhD".Pharmacology.Retrieved2021-10-16.
  2. ^Roth, Bryan."Biographical Sketch"(PDF).UNC School of Medicine.Archived(PDF)from the original on 2021-10-16.Retrieved16 October2021.
  3. ^Roth, Bryan."Biographical Sketch"(PDF).UNC School of Medicine.Archived(PDF)from the original on 2021-10-16.Retrieved16 October2021.
  4. ^Wacker D, Wang S, McCorvy JD, Betz RM, Venkatakrishnan, AJ, Levit A, Lansu K, Schools Z, Che T, Nichols DE, Shoichet BK, Dror RD, and Roth BL:Crystal structure of an LSD-bound human serotonin receptor.Cell 168: 377-389
  5. ^Kim...and Roth, Cell 182: 1574-1588, 2020
  6. ^English JG. Olsen, RHJ, Lansu K, Patel M, White K, Cockrell AS, Sing D, Strachan RT, Wacker D and Roth BL.VEGAS as a platform for facile directed evolution in mammalian cells.Cell 178: 748-761, 2019
  7. ^BN Armbruster, X Li, S Herlitzer, M Pausch and BL Roth: Evolving the lock to fit the key to create a family of GPCRs potently activated by an inert ligand. Proc Natl Acad Sci 2007 Mar 20;104(12):5163-8 (Highlighted on Cover) PMID 17350345
  8. ^"Post by Former NIMH Director Thomas Insel: Best of 2014".National Institute of Mental Health.Archived fromthe originalon 2016-12-15.
  9. ^Berndt, J., & Wong, W. (2015, January 06). 2014: Signaling Breakthroughs of the Year.https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/scisignal.aaa4696
  10. ^Adler, E. (2017, January 03). 2016: Signaling Breakthroughs of the Year. Retrieved April 16, 2021, fromhttps://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scisignal.aam5681
  11. ^Voices of chemical biology.Nature Chemical Biology11, 446–447 (2015).https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.1845
  12. ^Insel, Thomas(23 December 2011)."NIMH's top 10 research advances of 2011".National Institute of Mental Health.Archived fromthe originalon 2012-01-18.Retrieved27 March2023.
  13. ^"Top scientific breakthroughs of 2009".Wired.December 2009.
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