George Kunos MD, PhD

Dr. George Kunos received his MD from Semmelweis University (gold medalist) in Budapest, Hungary, and a Ph.D. in pharmacology from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, in Mark Nickerson's lab. He stayed on as faculty at McGill and rose to Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine until 1987, when he was recruited to the NIH as Laboratory Chief at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). In 1992 he became Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. He returned to NIH in 2000 as Scientific Director of NIAAA where he is also Chief of the Laboratory of Physiologic Studies. He is an elected Fellow of the American Heart Association and a foreign member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.