Eva King Killam

Eva King Killam
Born
Ellen Eva King

1920/21
New York State
DiedJuly 30, 2006
California
Alma materSarah Lawrence College, Mount Holyoke College, University of Illinois
PartnerKeith Killam
AwardsJohn J. Abel Award
Scientific career
FieldsNeuropharmacology
InstitutionsUniversity of California at Los Angeles, Stanford University, University of California at Davis

Eva King Killam (1920/21 – July 30, 2006)[1] was a research pharmacologist who studied the activity of drugs on the brain and behavior, developing animal models for epilepsy and opiate dependence.[2]

Killam was the first woman to be awarded the John J. Abel Award in Pharmacology from the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) in 1954, and the second woman to be elected as president of ASPET, in 1989.[3][4] A founding member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) in 1961, she became the first woman President of the ACNP in 1988.[1]

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