Erin Calipari, an assistant professor of pharmacology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, won the 2020 Early Career Award from the Division for Neuropharmacology of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. She was recognized for “cutting-edge techniques to outline the neural circuits and molecular mechanisms that underlie both adaptive and maladaptive processes in reward, motivation, and associative learning.”
Dr. Calipari joined the faculty at Vanderbilt University in 2017. She serves as associate editor of the Journal of Neuroscience.
Dr. Calipari is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts where she double majored in psychology and biology. She earned a Ph.D. in neuroscience at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She went on to conduct postdoctoral research at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.