Dr. Murrin's Biographical Information

L. Charles Murrin

L. Charles Murrin
Ph.D. Pharmacology, 1975
Yale University, New Haven, CT


Positions and Employment
2004-2006 Vice-Chair for Research, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience
University of Nebraska Medical School (UNMC), Omaha, Nebraska
1988-2004

Vice-Chairman, Department of Pharmacology
UNMC, Omaha, Nebraska

2001-

Professor (Courtesy), Department of Neurological Sciences
UNMC, Omaha, Nebraska

1988-

Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience
UNMC, Omaha, Nebraska

1987-1988

Associate Professor (Courtesy), Section of Neurology, Department of Internal Medicine
UNMC, Omaha, Nebraska

1985-1987

Associate Professor (Courtesy), Department of Neurology
UNMC, Omaha, Nebraska

1978-1983

Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology
UNMC, Omaha, Nebraska

1975-1978

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

1975-1975

Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Psychiatry
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

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Other experience and professional membership

American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1975-
American Society for Neurochemistry, 1980-
American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 1981-
International Society for Neurochemistry, 1979-
International Society for Developmental Neuroscience, 1982- 2008.
International Brain Research Organization, 1984-
Society for Neuroscience, 1979-
Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology, 2005-

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Books and book chapters
  1. Hexum, T.D., Murrin, L.C., Scholar, E.M., Neuropharmacology, In: Neuroimmune Pharmacology, T. Ikezu, H.E. Gendelman, S. Przedborski, K. Pahan, J. Kipnis, A. Kabanov, Eds., Springer, Berlin, 2008, pp. 575-594
  2. Murrin, L.C., Thomas, M.P. The neuroimmune system in psychiatric disorders, In: Neuroimmune Pharmacology, T. Ikezu, H.E. Gendelman, S. Przedborski, K. Pahan, J. Kipnis, A. Kabanov, Eds., Springer, Berlin, 2008, pp. 499-515
  3. Murrin, L.C. The role of dopamine in Parkinson’s Disease: a historical review. In: Parkinson’s Disease, M. Ebadi, R.F. Pfeiffer, Eds., CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2005, pp. 21-26

Additional publications on PubMed

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