Candace Pert
| Candace Beebe Pert | |
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| Born |
June 26, 1946 Manhattan, New York City |
| Died | September 12, 2013 (aged 67) Potomac, Maryland |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Neuroscience |
| Institutions |
National Institutes of Health Georgetown University |
| Known for | Opiate receptor, mind-body medicine pioneer, HIV treatment |
Candace Beebe Pert (June 26, 1946 – September 12, 2013) was an American neuroscientist and pharmacologist who discovered the opiate receptor, the cellular binding site for endorphins in the brain.
She was born on June 26, 1946 in Manhattan, New York City.
In 1974, Candace Pert earned a Ph.D. in pharmacology from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she worked in the laboratory of Solomon Snyder and discovered the brain’s opiate receptor. Previously, she completed her undergraduate studies in biology, cum laude in 1970 from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. Pert conducted a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Department of Pharmacology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 1974-1975. She conducted research at the National Institute of Mental Health from 1975 to 1987. Pert is the author of Molecules of Emotion. She appeared as one of the experts in Bill Moyers 1993 PBS video production, "Healing and the Mind", and in the 2004 film What the #$*! Do We Know!?.
Beginning in 1975, Pert held a variety of research positions with the National Institute of Mental Health. In 1983, she became the Chief of the Section on Brain Biochemistry of the Clinical Neuroscience Branch, the only female chief at NIMH.
She left to found and direct a private biotech laboratory in 1987. Pert was a Research Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, DC. In her latter years, she was with RAPID Pharmaceuticals.
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