BAP Council Member Details
Council Member: Dr Paula Moran, PhD
University of Nottingham. Paula.Moran@nottingham.ac.uk
Council Member until 2011
Paula Moran has been a member of BAP for 20 years since her postgraduate days and has actively attended and contributed to meetings since then. She completed her PhD in N.U.I Galway with Brian Leonard and subsequently took up a post as a senior research scientist in the pharmaceutical industry at Marian Merrell Dow Strasbourg, France. In 1997 she moved to the Institute of Psychiatry, London to work with Jeffrey Gray and subsequently became a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at University of Leicester. She is currently a Reader in Behavioural Neuroscience at the University of Nottingham.
Her research interests are in psychopharmacological and genetic animal models of schizophrenia and their translation into patients. This research crosses traditional boundaries between pre-clinical and clinical approaches and she publishes in both clinical and preclinical fields. As a consequence of the interdisciplinary nature of her research she has a good understanding of both perspectives, which together with her experience in the pharmaceutical industry make her well placed to represent the interests of different subgroups that comprise the BAP.
The BAP is the one Association that she felt encouraged her as a young scientist. She is particularly committed to the development of a formal role for the BAP in the individual mentoring of young scientists. There is an urgent need to stem the drift of young scientists, and particularly female scientists, away from the profession at early career stage.
Interdisciplinarity is a notable strength of the BAP. With an expanding range of rapidly evolving scientific disciplines that now inform psychopharmacological research, she would like encourage greater representation from molecular and cellular biological as well as psychological disciplines in our educational and scientific programmes.
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23rd August 2010
New BAP Education web page describing InVivoStat: The Statistical Tool for all Psychopharmacologists. Click here to read more InVivoStat - Information for the Public on
4th August 2010
We are pleased to launch our Public Web Pages. These are intended for members of the public with an interest in psychopharmacology. Public Web Page - Review of Mental Health Research on
5th July 2010
In 2009, BAP contributed to the Medical Research Council’s Review of Mental Health Research. The Report has recently been published. A summary report may be found here; MRC Mental Health Research Summary Report. Professor Barbara Sahakian, who will become BAP President-elect later this month, has written an article in the Lancet “A UK strategy for mental health and wellbeing”, also available here; Lancet article