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Lisa Monteggia | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chicago Medical School |
| Awards | 2005 Daniel X. Freedman Award from NARSAD for Outstanding Research, 2011 Rising Star Award from the International Mental Health Research Organization, 2011 Daniel H. Efron Award for Outstanding Basic/Translational Research by the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neuroscience, pharmacology |
| Institutions | Vanderbilt University, UT Southwestern |
Lisa M. Monteggia is an American neuroscientist who is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, Psychiatry & Psychology as well as the Barlow Family Director of the Vanderbilt Brain Institute at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Monteggia probes the molecular mechanisms underlying psychiatric disorders and has made critical discoveries about the role of the neurotrophins in antidepressant efficacy, the antidepressant mechanisms of Ketamine, as well as the epigenetic regulation of synaptic transmission by MeCP2.