The 7th Samuel Barondes Lecture in Biological Psychiatry

Transcriptional and Epigenetic Mechanisms of Drug Addiction

Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD
Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Chief Scientific Officer and Executive Vice President
Mount Sinai Health System

Dr. Nestler received his BA, PhD, and MD degrees, and psychiatry residency training, from Yale University. He served on the Yale faculty from 1987-2000, where he was the Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobiology and founding director of the Division of Molecular Psychiatry. He moved to Dallas in 2000, where he was the Lou and Ellen McGinley Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center until moving to New York in 2008.

Upon recruitment to Mount Sinai, Dr. Nestler was Chair of the Department of Neuroscience (2008-2016), Director of the Friedman Brain Institute (2008-2025), and Dean for Academic and Scientific Affairs (2016-2025) prior to his being named Dean in July 2025. 

Dr. Nestler is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2025) and National Academy Medicine (1998) and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005). He is past President of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (2011) and the Society for Neuroscience (2017). He is a founder and SAB chair for PsychoGenics. Dr. Nestler also chairs the SABs for One Mind and the Hope for Depression Research Foundation. The author of more than 775 publications and five books, Dr. Nestler’s research studies the molecular basis of drug addiction and depression.

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This event is free and open to the public, although attendees should keep in mind that the talk will be geared towards a scientific and medical professional audience.