Behavioral Pharmacology of Drug Abuse Current Status

Jun-Xu Li received his MD degree at Binzhou Medical University in 2o0o; In 2005 he received his Ph.D in pharmacology at Peking University. He received his postdoctoral training between 2005-2010 at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. In 2010 he joined the faculty of Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the State University of New York at Buffalo and is currently a professor in the same department. He has authored more than 120 papers and is currently an associate editor of Pharmacology & Therapeutics. He serves as an reviewer for numerous scientific journals and several grant agencies. He is the past chair of Behavioral Pharmacology Division of American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) and Upstate New York Pharmacology Society. He received several awards including the Joseph Cochin Young Investigator Award from the College on Problems of Drug Dependence and the JH Woods Early Career Award in Behavioral Pharmacology from ASPET.