Richard L. Huganir

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Full Name	Richard L. Huganir
Occupation	Professor
Date Of Birth	Mar 25, 1953(1953-03-25)
Age	71
Country	United States
Horoscope	Aries

Richard L. Huganir Biography

Richard L. Huganir is one of the most popular and richest Professor who was born on March 25, 1953 in United States.

Huganir completed his undergraduate work in biochemistry at Vassar College in

1975. He received his Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology from Cornell University in 1982 where he performed his thesis research in the laboratory of Efraim Racker. He was a postdoctoral fellow with the Nobel Laureate, Paul Greengard, at Yale University School of Medicine from 1982-1984. Huganir then moved to the Rockefeller University where he was an Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology from 1984-1988. Huganir moved to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1988 as an Associate Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and an Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience. Huganir was an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 1988-2014. Huganir became the Director or the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience in 2006. Huganir’s career has focused on synapses, the connections between nerve cells, in the brain. Huganir’s studies have shown that the regulation of receptor function is a major mechanism for the regulation of neuronal excitability and connectivity in the brain and is critical for many higher brain processes, including learning and memory, and is a major determinant of behavior. Moreover, dysregulation of these mechanisms underlie many neurological and psychiatric diseases including Alzheimer’s, ALS, schizophrenia, autism, intellectual disability, PTSD as well as in chronic pain and drug addiction. Huganir is currently the Chair of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research Scientific Advisory Committee and a recent member of the NIMH Council and the NIH BRAIN Multi-Council Working Group. Huganir is the past the President of the Society for Neuroscience and has served as Treasurer of the Society for Neuroscience.

Richard L. Huganir Net Worth

Richard L. Huganir is one of the richest Professor from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Richard L. Huganir 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Richard Lewis Huganir (born March 25, 1953) is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Neuroscience and Psychological and Brain Sciences, Director of the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Brain Science Institute at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has joint appointments in the Department of Biological Chemistry and the Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

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Riikka Ranked on the list of most popular Professor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Richard L. Huganir celebrates birthday on March 25 of every year.