David S. Bredt

David S. Bredt is an American molecular neuroscientist who has been Global Head Discovery Neuroscience at Johnson & Johnson since 2011.[1]

After studies in chemistry at Princeton, Bredt studied medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where he obtained M.D and Ph.D degrees. He was a student of Solomon H. Snyder whom he also co-authored several widely cidely papers.[2] He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins from 1993 to 1994.[3] He became a 1995 Searle scholar,[4] and received a 1997 Beckman Young Investigators Award.

He worked at the University of California, San Francisco Medical school from 1994 to 2004, first as an assistant professor,[2] later as professor of physiology.[3]

He served as Vice President of Integrative Biology at Eli Lilly and Company from 2004 to 2011.[5] He was elected to the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars in 2005.[3][6]

Selected papers

References

  1. Jonathan D. Rockoff (3 March 2011 J&J Poaches Lilly’s Neurological Research Chief Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 16 December 2013
  2. 1 2 Karen Kreeger (2 May 1992) Hot Scientists Have Philosophies In Common The Scientist
  3. 1 2 3 Society of Scholars Inducts New Members The JHU Gazette. 23 May 2005. Retrieved 16 December 2013
  4. Scholar Profile David S. Bredt
  5. Jonathan D. Rockoff (24 February 2011) Lilly’s Neuroscience Research Chief Resigns Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 16 December 2013
  6. Julie Blanker (September 2005) Alumni NotesAlumni Notes Johns Hopkins Magazine. Retrieved 16 December 2013


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