Zoltan Sarnyai

Zoltan Sarnyai

Director, Margaret Roderick Centre for Mental Health Research @ James Cook University

About

Prof Sarnyai’s research has been focusing on the neurobiological mechanisms of stress and psychiatric disorders, including drug addiction, schizophrenia and depression. He obtained his M.D. and PhD in Neuroscience from University of Szeged, Hungary. He conducted post-doctoral work on stress and addiction in primates at Harvard Medical School at the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center/McLean Hospital. He then joined the Rockefeller University as an independent investigator (Research Associate), working jointly in the Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology and in the Laboratory of Biology of Addictive Diseases. In 1999 Sarnyai joined the start-up behavioural neuroscience-based biotechnology company, PsychoGenics Inc. as Director of Neurobiology and later assumed the role of Vice President. Before joining JCU in 2012 he was a University Lecturer in the Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge where he served as Director of Studies for Medicine. He was awarded the Curt P. Richter Prize by the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology for his work on neuropeptides and brain function and was a recipient of the prestigious Du Pont Warren Fellowship from Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a Young Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD).

Country

Australia

City

Townsville

Industry

Higher Education

Skill

Neuroscience, Animal Models, Mental Health, Pharmacology, Biotechnology, Laboratory, Research, Medicine, Scientific Writing, Biology, Psychiatry, Immunohistochemistry, Physiology, Science, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Life Sciences

Experience

James Cook University

Director, Margaret Roderick Centre for Mental Health Research

James Cook University

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2025-2 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos
James Cook University

Professor

James Cook University

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2017-1 - Present · 9 yrs 9 mos

Townsville, Australia

James Cook University

Associate Professor

James Cook University

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2012-1 - 2016-12 · 5 yrs

Townsville, Australia

Head, Laboratory of Psychiatric Neuroscience Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine (AITHM) Member, Comparative Genomics Centre Member, Centre for Biodiscovery and Molecular Development of Therapeutics Affiliated Researcher, Queensland Tropical Health Alliance James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, AU

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Lady Davis Visting Professor

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

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2019-5 - 2019-11 · 7 mos

Haifa Area, Israel

University of Cambridge

University Lecturer

University of Cambridge

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2003-7 - 2011-12 · 8 yrs 6 mos

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Pembroke College, Cambridge

Fellow and Director of Studies in Medicine

Pembroke College, Cambridge

2003-7 - 2011 · 7 yrs

Cambridge, United Kingdom

PsychoGenics

Vice President

PsychoGenics

1999-11 - 2003-7 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Tarrytown, NY, USA

PsychoGenics Inc. - a behavioural neuroscience-based biotechnology company to develop better animal models, to discover and validate drug targets and new drugs for neuropsychiatric disorders by bridging molecular and behavioural neurobiology.

The Rockefeller University

Research Associate

The Rockefeller University

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1995-9 - 1999-11 · 4 yrs 3 mos

New York, NY, USA

Junior faculty position, non-tenure track, Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology (Head: Bruce S. McEwen) and Laboratory for Biology of Addictive Diseases (Head: Mary-Jeanne Kreek)

Harvard Medical School

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Harvard Medical School

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1992-2 - 1995-8 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Belmont, MA, USA

1992-1995 Research Fellow in Psychiatry, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center, McLean Hospital, Department of Psychiatry

Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical University

Assistant Professor

Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical University

1987-10 - 1995-2 · 7 yrs 5 mos

Szeged, Hungary

Instructor, later Asistant Professor at the Department of Pathophysiology

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