Amynah Pradhan, PhD

Amynah Pradhan, PhD

Principal Investigator, Director of the Center for Clinical Pharmacology

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.

Lab Staff

Elizaveta Mangutov

Elizaveta Mangutov

Graduate Research Assistant

Jhoan Aguilar

Jhoan Aguilar

Graduate Research Assistant

Stephanie Cui

Stephanie Cui

Undergraduate Student

Wesley Page

Wesley Page

Research Technician

Yanping  Zhang

Yanping  Zhang

Associate Scientist