Core Group Member

George F. Koob, Ph.D.
Professor & Director
Division of Psychopharmacology
Department of Neuropharmacology
The Scripps Research Institute
10550 N. Torrey Pines Road, CVN-7
La Jolla, CA 92037
Phone: 858-784-7062
Fax: 858-784-7405
Email:  gkoob@scripps.edu

George F. Koob, Ph.D., is Professor and Chairman of the Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders at The Scripps Research Institute and Adjunct Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego.  An authority on addiction and stress, his research interests include the neurobiology of emotion, with a focus on the theoretical constructs of reward and stress.  He has made contributions to our understanding of the anatomical connections of the emotional systems and the neurochemistry of emotional function.  His current research is focused on exploration of the neurobiological basis for the neuroadaptation associated with drug dependence and stress.  He has published over 650 scientific papers, is the United States Editor-in-Chief of the journal Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, Director of the NIAAA Alcohol Research Center at The Scripps Research Institute, Director of the Pearson Center for Alcoholism and Addiction Research, and Consortium Coordinator for NIAAA's multi-center Integrative Neuroscience Initiative on Alcoholism.  His awards include being honored as a Highly Cited Researcher from the Institute for Scientific Information, and the Distinguished Investigator, Mark Keller, and Tharp Awards from the Research Society on Alcoholism.