Raul Gainetdinov (born September 1, 1964) is a pharmacologist and neuroscientist. The main direction of his research is psychiatric and neurological diseases of the brain, such as

schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by continuous or relapsing episodes of psychosis. Major symptoms include hallucinations (typically hearing voices), delusions, and disorganized thinking. Other symptoms include social wit ...

, ADHD, depression and

Parkinson's disease Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system. The symptoms usually emerge slowly, and as the disease worsens, non-motor symptoms becom ...

. He is the author of fundamental scientific works in pharmacology of dopamine, β-Arrestins and

NMDA receptors The ''N''-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (also known as the NMDA receptor or NMDAR), is a glutamate receptor and ion channel found in neurons. The NMDA receptor is one of three types of ionotropic glutamate receptors, the other two being AMPA and ...

. He is a pioneer researcher of

Trace amine-associated receptor Trace amine-associated receptors (TAARs), sometimes referred to as trace amine receptors (TAs or TARs), are a class of G protein-coupled receptors that were discovered in 2001. TAAR1, the first of six functional human TAARs, has gained considerab ...

Education

He earned an MD degree from the Second Moscow Medical Institute (now the

Russian National Research Medical University Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (formerly known as Russian State Medical University or RSMU) is a medical higher education institution in Moscow, Russia founded in 1906. It is fully accredited and recognized by Russia's Mini ...

) in 1988, followed by a PhD degree in Pharmacology in 1992 from the

Russian Academy of Medical Sciences The USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (russian: Акаде́мия медици́нских нау́к СССР) was the highest scientific and medical organization founded in the Soviet Union founded in 1944. Its successor is the Russian Academy of ...

Career

* 1988-1996 PhD student - Senior Scientist, Institute of Pharmacology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia. * 1996-2008 Postdoctoral Researcher - Associate Research Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Duke University, North Carolina, USA. * 2008-2016 Senior Researcher, Department of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies,

Italian Institute of Technology The Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) (in English: Italian Institute of Technology) is a scientific research centre based in Genoa (Italy, EU). Its main goal is the advancement of science, in Italy and worldwide, through projects and discoveri ...

, Genova, Italy. * 2013-2018 Professor, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology * Since 2015 Director of Institute of Translational Biomedicine and Head of Laboratory of Neuroscience and Molecular Pharmacology, Saint Petersburg State University.

Influence

Since 2018 Raul Gainetdinov has been included in the Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers list. ''h''-index 82. Since 2013 he has been the chairman of the nomenclature committee for

dopamine receptor Dopamine receptors are a class of G protein-coupled receptors that are prominent in the vertebrate central nervous system (CNS). Dopamine receptors activate different effectors through not only G-protein coupling, but also signaling through diffe ...

s of

International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology The International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR) is a voluntary, non-profit association representing the interests of scientists in pharmacology-related fields to facilitate ''Better Medicines through Global Education and Rese ...

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IUPHAR The International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR) is a voluntary, non-profit association representing the interests of scientists in pharmacology-related fields to facilitate ''Better Medicines through Global Education and Resear ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gainetdinov, Raul Living people 1964 births Academic staff of Saint Petersburg State University Russian medical researchers Russian neuroscientists Russian pharmacologists Duke University faculty Academicians of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences