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Prof. Philip Cowen
Professor of Psychopharmacology Department of Psychiatry University of Oxford, UK
Biography
Prof. Cowen trained in medicine at University College Hospital, London, and then in psychiatry at King’s College Hospital. He then went to Oxford to work in the MRC Unit of Clinical Pharmacology under David Grahame-Smith. In his laboratory he studied the basic neuropharmacology of serotonin and its application to clinical psychopharmacology.
Since 1983 he has been MRC Clinical Scientist and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry in Oxford. Prof. Cowen was elected to a personal chair in Psychopharmacology in the University of Oxford in 1997 and to a Fellowship of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences in 2001. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Association of Psychopharmacology in 2014. His main interests are in the biochemistry and treatment of mood disorders, particularly the pharmacological management of resistant depression.