Dr. Perry Molinoff
MD, Director
Dr. Perry Molinoff is a neuropharmacologist with an M.D. from Harvard University. Between 2003 and 2006 he was the Vice Provost for Research at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a faculty position in the Department of Pharmacology and was the A.N. Richards Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1981 to 1995. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC. In addition to his faculty appointments, from January 1995 until March 2001, Dr. Molinoff was the Vice President for Neuroscience and Genitourinary Drug Discovery at Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, where he was responsible for implementing and directing the Institute’s research efforts in these therapeutic areas. From September 2001 until November 2003, Dr. Molinoff served as Executive Vice President of Research and Development at Palatin Technologies, where he was responsible for all basic, preclinical and clinical research. Dr. Molinoff has been a member of the board of directors of both publicly traded and private companies including Palatin Technologies, Cypress Biosciences, Aegera Therapeutics and Cita Neuropharma. He is or has been a member of multiple editorial advisory boards for scientific and educational journals, has authored over 225 manuscripts and has authored or edited six books including two editions of Basic Neurochemistry and the 9th edition of Goodman and Gilman’s textbook, The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics.
