Amynah Pradhan, PhD
Principal Investigator; Director of the Center for Clinical Pharmacology; Professor of Anesthesiology
Dr. Pradhan’s research focuses on the neuropharmacology of opioid receptors. She received her PhD in Pharmacology and Therapeutics from McGill University, under the supervision of Paul Clarke. Dr. Pradhan then did an industry fellowship at AstraZeneca Montreal for a year. She then did a postdoctoral fellowship with Brigitte Kieffer at the IGBMC (Institut de génétique, biologie moléculaire et cellulaire) in Strasbourg France, followed by another fellowship with Chris Evans at UCLA. Dr. Pradhan was a faculty member with tenure at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 2013-2022.
Join our team
We are actively seeking excitable trainees, techs, and postdocs to join us! Interested applicants are always welcome to contact me at amynah@wustl.edu.