Theodore J. Cicero, PhD

Dr. Cicero is a Professor of Psychiatry, Anatomy and Neurobiology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He served as Vice Chancellor for Research at Washington University from 1996 to 2006. Dr. Cicero received his PhD in neuropharmacology from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, in 1969. He has been at Washington University since that time, becoming a tenured Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobiology in 1978. A life fellow of the American College of Neuropharmacology and past president of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Dr. Cicero has been a field editor for The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and has served on the editorial boards and as an expert reviewer for numerous other scientific publications. He has contributed more than 170 publications to the scientific literature related to the neurobiologic substrates of substance abuse and has active grants from the National Institute of Drug Abuse.