Honors Societies:
American Association for the Advancement of Science
(1969-present)
Society for Neuroscience (1973-present; Nominating Committee, 1984-1987;
Presidential Symposium
Speaker, 1990; Public Information
Committee, 1996-1999; Social Issues Committee, 2003-2006;
President, Atlanta Chapter, 2003-2004)
American Society for Neurochemistry (1973-1983; Program Committee,
1978; Organizer of Symposium
on Neural Peptides, 1978)
American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
(1974-present; Symposium Organizer
at International Meeting, 1984; Selection
Committee for Otto Krayer Award, 1993, 1997, 2002; and
Neuropharmacology Division Executive
Committee, 2002-2005, and Chair, 2003-2004; John Jacob Abel
Award Committee, 2004-2007; Council,
2005-2007).
Mid-Atlantic Acetylcholine Discussion Group (1973-1978; Co-Chairman,
1975)
American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (Scientific Associate,
1978; Member, 1980; Fellow
1986-present; Member of Education
and Training Committee, 1984-1987; Program Committee,
1988-1990; Ethics Committee, 1991-1993;
Credentials Committee, 1993-1995; Animals in Research
Committee, 2001-2004)
International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) (1979-present)
International Drug Abuse Research Society (IDARS) (Member 2004;
President, 2004-2007)
College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Inc. (Member, 1994; Board
of Directors, 1994-1998; Executive
Committee, 1999-2001; President, 1999-2000;
Nominating Committee, 1994-1995; Publications Committee,
1994-1995; Media Relations Committee,
Chair, 1994-1997; Long-Range Planning Committee, 2001-2004;
Media Committee, 2001-2007; ONDCP
Task Force, 2001-2003)
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Phi Beta Kappa (1970)
National Institute of Mental Health Research Career Development
Award, Type II (3/1/75 - renewed 3/1/80
and 3/1/85)
National Institute of Mental Health Small Grants Committee (9/1/77-8/31/81)
Distinguished Young Scientist in Maryland Award (1977; The Maryland
Academy of Sciences)
Visiting Scientist, National Institute for Medical Research, Mill
Hill, London (Summer 1978; Molecular
Pharmacology Unit, A.S.V. Burgen,
Director)
Consultant, Pharmacology Department, Hoffman-La Roche, 1980-1985
Grass Traveling Scientist, Spring 1981, to Halifax, Nova Scotia
Listed among "1,000 Contemporary Scientists Most Cited 1965-1978",
Current Contents 24, 5, 1981
Daniel H. Efron Award (1984, from the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology)
Mathilde Solowey Award for Research in Neuroscience, (1985 from
the Foundation for Advanced
Education in the Sciences)
First Ariens Lecture (1985, The Dutch Pharmacological Society; DUPHAR)
Family Therapy Institute of Washington, DC, Part-time Family Therapy
Training, 1983-1985.
Jay Haley and Cloe Madanes, Supervisors. 276 individual and group
supervision hours.
Graduate Certificate in Substance Abuse Counseling, 1988, Loyola
University
Sterling Lecture (1987, Tufts Univ. School of Medicine; 1988, University
of Kentucky Medical School)
Gold Lecture on Substance Abuse (1988, University of Florida Medical
School at Gainesville)
Senior Executive Service Appointment (November 20, 1988, Dept. of
Health & Human Services)
Administrator's Award for Meritorious Achievement (1989, ADAMHA)
Upjohn Lecture (1989, Uniformed Services University of the Health
Sciences)
Thomas L. O'Donohue Memorial Lecture (1989, Howard University)
A. Ross McIntyre Award (1990, University of Nebraska Medical Center)
Presidential Symposium Lecturer (1990, Society for Neuroscience)
First Ivan F.W. Davidson Memorial Lecture (1990, Bowman Gray School
of Medicine)
Distinguished Lecturer (1992, Stritch School of Medicine)
Otto Krayer Award (1992, American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental
Therapeutics)
Harry Williams Lectureship Award (1992, Emory University School
of Medicine)
Grass Lecture (1993, University of Kansas, MO)
Boots Distinguished Neuroscientist Lecture (1993, Louisiana State
University Medical Center)
Visiting Committee, Medical Department (1993-1997), Brookhaven National
Laboratory.
Consultant, Guilford Pharmaceuticals (1995)
Charles Howard Candler Professor (1995, Emory University)
Distinguished Lecturer (1996, University of South Alabama)
Eminent Scholar Award (1996, State of Georgia and Emory University)
The Dana Alliance, Member (1997-)
Advisory Board, Addiction Studies Institute, Wale Forest University
(1999-)
President, College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Inc. (1999-2000)
Scientific Advisory Board, Amethyst Technologies (1999-2000)
Scientific Advisory Board, Addiction Therapies, Inc. (1999-2003)
NIDA K05 Senior Scientist Award (1999-2004; 2004-2008)
NIDA Special Emphasis Panels (1999-2004)
Listed (by ISI) among the 250 most cited scientists in Neuroscience
from 1981-2000 (rank 23rd)
Scientific Advisory Board, Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience,
University of Mississipppi Medical School
(2000-2005)
NIDA K Study Section (Ad hoc, 2003-2004; regular member,
2004-2008)
Board of Directors, Aptotec, Inc. (2004-)
International Drug Abuse Research Society (IDARS) [a founding member
(2004) and first
President (2004-2007)]
External Advisory Board, Center of Research Excellence in Natural
Products Neuroscience,
University of Mississippi at Oxford
(2006-2010)
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SELECTED
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
(from approximately 900 total publications, including refereed papers,
chapters, abstracts, edited books, and patents):
Kuhar, M.J.
and Aghajanian, G.K. Selective Accumulation of 3H-Serotonin
by Nerve Terminals of Raphe
Neurones: An autoradiographic Study.
Nature 241: 187-189, 1973.
Kuhar, M.J.,
Sethy, V.H., Roth, R.H., and Aghajanian, G.K. Choline: Selective
Accumulation by Central
Cholinergic Neurons. J. Neurochem.
20: 581-593, 1973.
Kuhar, M.J.,
Pert, C.B., and Snyder, S.H. Regional Distribution of Opiate
Receptor Binding in Monkey and
Human Brain. Nature 245: 447-450,
1973.
Kuhar, M.J.
and Yamamura, H.I. Light Autoradiographic Localization of
Cholinergic Muscarinic Receptors
in Rat Brain by Specific Binding of
a Potent Antagonist. Nature 253: 560-561, 1975.
Simon, J.R.
and Kuhar, M.J. Impulse-Flow Regulation of High Affinity Choline
Uptake in Brain Cholinergic
Nerve Terminals. Nature (London.)
255: 162-163, 1975.
Pert, C.B.,
Kuhar, M.J., and Snyder, S.H. Opiate Receptor: Autoradiographic
Localization in Rat Brain.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) 73: 3729-3733,
1976.
Simon, J.R.,
Atweh, S., and Kuhar, M.J. Sodium-Dependent High Affinity
Choline Uptake: A Regulatory Step
in the Synthesis of Acetylcholine.
J. Neurochem. 26: 909-922, 1976.
Uhl, G.R., Kuhar,
M.J., and Snyder, S.H. Neurotensin: Immunohisto-chemical Localization
in Rat Central
Nervous System. Proc. Natl.
Acad. Sci. (USA) 74: 4059-4063, 1977.
Young, W.S.,
III, and Kuhar, M.J. Autoradiographic Localization of Benzodiazepine
Receptors in the Brain
of Humans and Animals. Nature
280: 393-395, 1979.
Palacios, J.M.,
Young, W.S., III, and Kuhar, M.J. Autoradiographic Localization
of Gamma-aminobutyric (GABA)
Receptors in Rat Cerebellum.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) 77: 670-674, 1980.
Palacios, J.M.
and Kuhar, M.J. Beta-adrenergic Receptor Localization by Light
Microscopic Autoradiography.
Science 208: 1378-1380, 1980.
Zarbin, M.A.,
Wamsley, J.K., and Kuhar, M.J. Axonal Transport of Muscarinic
Cholinergic Receptors in Rat
Vagus Nerve: High and Low Affinity
Agonist Receptors Move in Opposite Directions and Differ in
Nucleotide Sensitivity. J. Neurosci.
2: 934-941, 1982.
Wagner, Jr.,
H.N., Burns, H.D., Dannals, R.F., Wong, D.F., Langstrom, B., Duelfer,
T., Frost, J.J., Ravert,
H.T., Links, J.M., Rosenbloom, S.B.,
Lukas, S.E., Kramer A.V., and Kuhar, M.J. Imaging Dopamine
Receptors in the Human Brain by Positron
Tomography. Science 221(4617): 1264-1266, 1983.
Uhl, G.R. and
Kuhar, M.J. Chronic Neuroleptic Treatment Enhances Neurotensin
Receptor Binding in
Human and Rat Substantia Nigra.
Nature 309: 350-352, 1984.
Wong, D.F.,
Wagner, H.N., Jr., Dannals, R.F., Links, J.M., Frost, J.J., Ravert,
H.T., Wilson, A.A., Rosenbaum,
A.E., Gjedde, A., Douglass, K.H.,
Petronis, J.D., Folstein, M.F., Thomas Toung, J.K., Burns H.D.,
and Kuhar,
M.J. Effects of Age on Dopamine and
Serotonin Receptors Measured by Positron Tomography in the
Living Human Brain. Science
226: 1393-1396, 1984.
Wong, D.F.,
Wagner, H.N., Jr., Dannals, R.F., Links, J.M., Kuhar, M.J., and
Gjedde, A. Human Brain Receptor Distribution.
Science 232: 1269-1271, 1986.
De Souza, E.B.,
Whitehouse, P.J., Kuhar, M.J., Price, D.L., and Vale, W.W.
Reciprocal Changes in
Corticotropin-Releasing Factor (CRF)-Like
Immunoreactivity and CRF Receptors in Cerebral Cortex of
Alzheimer's Disease. Nature
319: 593-595, 1986.
Wong, D.F.,
Wagner, H.N., Jr., Tune, L.E., Dannals, R.F., Pearlson, G.D., Links,
J.M., Tamminga, C.A.,
Broussolle, E.P., Ravert, H.T., Wilson,
A.A., Thomas Toung, J.K., Malat, J., Williams, J.A., O'Tuama, L.A.,
Snyder, S.H., Kuhar, M.J., and Gjedde,
A. Positron Emission Tomography Reveals Elevated D2 Dopamine
Receptors in Drug-Naive Schizophrenics.
Science 234: 1558-1563, 1986.
Ritz, M.C.,
Lamb, R.J., Goldberg S.R., and Kuhar, M.J. Cocaine Receptors
on Dopamine Transporters are
Related to Self-administration of
Cocaine. Science 237: 1219-1223, 1987.
Grigoriadis,
D.E., Wilson, A.A., Lew, R., Sharkey, J.S., and Kuhar, M.J.
Dopamine Transport Sites Selectively
Labeled by a Novel Photoaffinity Probe:
125I-DEEP. J. Neurosci. 9(8): 2664-2670, 1989.
Kuhar, M.J.,
Sanchez-Roa, P.M., Wong, D.F., Dannals, R.F., Grigoriadis, D.E.,
Lew, R., and Milberger, M.
Dopamine Transporter: Biochemistry,
Pharmacology and Imaging. Eur. Neurol. 30(1): 15-20, 1990.
Carroll, F.I.,
Lewin, A.H., Philip, A., Parham, K., Boja, J.W., and Kuhar, M.J.
Synthesis and Ligand Binding
of Cocaine Isomers at the Cocaine
Receptor. J. Med. Chem. 34: 883-886, 1991.
Kuhar, M.J.,
Lloyd, D.G., and Loats, H.L. Imaging Receptors by Autoradiography:
Computer-Assisted
Approaches. J. Chem. Neuroanat.
4: 319-327, 1991.
Volkow, N.D.,
Gatley, S.J. Fowler, J.S., Chen, R., Logan, J., Dewey, S.L., Ding,
Y.-S., Pappas, N., King, P.,
MacGregor, R.R., Kuhar, M.J., Carroll,
F.I. and Wolf, A.P. Long-Lasting Inhibition of in vivo Cocaine Binding
to Dopamine Transporters by 3(-(4-Iodophenyl)Tropane-2-Carboxylic
Acid Methyl Ester: RTI-55 or (CIT.
Synapse 19(3): 206-211, 1995.
Ding. Y.-S.,
Gatley, S.J., Fowler, J.S., Volkow, N.D., Aggarwal, D., Logan, J.,
Dewey, S.L., Liang, F., Carroll,
F.I. and Kuhar, M.J. Mapping
Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors with PET. Synapse 24: 403-407,
1996.
Wong, D.F.,
Harris, J.C., Naidu, S., Yokoi, F., Marenco, S., Dannals, R.F.,
Ravert, H.T., Yaster, M., Evans, A.,
Rousset, O., Bryan, R.N., Gjedde,
A., Kuhar, M.J. and Breese, G.R. Dopamine Transporters
are Markedly
Reduced in Lesch-Nyhan Disease in
vivo. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93: 5539-5543, 1996.
Nirenberg, M.J.,
Chan, J., Pohorille, A., Vaughan, R.A., Uhl, G.R., Kuhar, M.J. and
Pickel, V.M. The Dopamine
Transporter: Comparative Ultrastructure
of Dopaminergic Axons in Limbic and Motor Compartments of the
Nucleus Accumbens. J. Neurosci.
17: 6899-6907, 1997.
Koylu, E.O.,
Couceyro, P.R., Lambert, P.D., Ling, N.C., DeSouza, E.B., and Kuhar,
M.J. Immunohistochemical
Localization of Novel CART Peptides
in Rat Hypothalamus, Pituitary and Adrenal Gland.
J. Neuroendocrinol. 9: 823-833, 1997.
Molina, P.E.,
Ding, Y.-S., Carroll, F.I., Liang, F., Volkow, N.D., Pappas, N.,
Kuhar, M., Abumrad, N., Gatley, S.J.,
and Fowler, J.S. Fluoro-norchloroepibatidine:
Preclinical Assessment of Acute Toxicity. Nucl. Med. Biol. 24:
743-747, 1997.
Lambert, P.D.,
Couceyro, P.R., McGirr, K.M., Dall Vechia, S.E., Smith, Y., and
Kuhar, M.J. CART Peptides in
the Central Control of Feeding and
Interactions with Neuropeptide Y. Synapse 29: 293-298, 1998.
Kuhar, M. Neurotransmitter
Transporters are NOT in the Synapse? Presented at INABIS '98
- 5th Internet World
Congress on Biomedical Sciences at
McMaster University, Canada, December 7-16th. Invited Symposium.
Available at URL http://www.mcmaster.ca/inabis98/simantov/kuhar0153/two.html,
1998.
Broberger, C.,
Holmberg, K., Kuhar, M.J., and Hökfelt, T. Cocaine- and
Amphetamine-Regulated Transcript in
the Rat Vagus Nerve: A Putative Mediator
of Cholecystokinin-Induced Satiety. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.
USA
96: 13506-13511, 1999.
Dall Vechia-Adams,
S., Smith, Y., and Kuhar, M.J. CART Peptide-Immunoreactive
Projection from the Nucleus
Accumbens Targets Substantia Nigra
Pars Reticulata Neurons in the Rat. J. Comp. Neurol. 434:
29-39,
2001.
Kuhar, M.J.,
Carroll, F.I., Bharat, N., and Landry, D.W. Anticocaine Catalytic
Antibodies Have No Affinity for
RTI Compounds: Implications for Treatment.
Synapse 41: 176-178, 2001.
Kuhar, M.J.
and Joyce, A.R. Slow Onset of CNS Drugs: Can Changes in Protein
Concentration Account for
the Delay? Trends Pharmacol.
Sci. 22: 450-456, 2001.
Jaworski, J.N.,
Kozel, M.A., Philpot, K.B., and Kuhar M.J. Intra-accumbal
Injection of CART (Cocaine-
Amphetamine Regulated Transcript)
Peptide Reduces Cocaine-Induced Locomotor Activity. J. Pharmacol.
Exp. Ther. 307: 1038-1044, 2003.
Dominguez, G.,
del Giudice, E.M., and Kuhar, M.J. CART Peptide Levels are
Altered by a Mutation Associated
with Obesity at Codon 34. Mol. Psychiatry
9: 1065-1066, 2004.
Vicentic, A.,
Lakatos, A., and Kuhar, M.J. CART (Cocaine- and Amphetamine-Regulated
Transcript) Peptide
Receptors: Specific Binding
in AtT20 Cells. Eur. J. Pharm. 528: 188-189, 2005.
Philpot, K.B.,
Dallvechia-Adams, S., Smith, Y., and Kuhar, M.J. A Cocaine-and Amphetamine-Regulated-
Transcript Peptide Projection from
the Lateral Hypothalamus to the Ventral Tegmental Area. Neuroscience
135: 915-925, 2005.
Vicentic, A.,
Francis, D., Moffett, M., Lakatos, A., Rogge, G., Hubert, G.W.,
Harley, J., and Kuhar, M.J. Maternal
Separation Alters Serotonergic Transporer
Densities and Serotonergic 1A Receptors in Rat Brain.
Neuroscience 140: 355-365, 2006.
Moffett, M.C.,
Harley, J., Francis, D., Sanghani, S.P., Davis, W.I., and Kuhar,
M.J. Maternal Separation and
Handling Affects Cocaine Self-administration
in Both the Treated Pups as Adult and the Dams. J. Pharmaol.
Exp. Ther. 317: 1210-1218, 2006.
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