Wayne Bowen is an American pharmacologist, biologist, and neuroscientist who is Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience, and Adjunct Professor of Neuroscience at

Brown University Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...

. Bowen earned his B.S. in chemistry from

Morgan State College Morgan State University (Morgan State or MSU) is a public historically black research university in Baltimore, Maryland. It is the largest of Maryland's historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). In 1890, the university, then known a ...

and completed a Ph.D. in biochemistry and neurobiology at

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

in 1981. He is a nationally recognized leader in research on sigma receptors and is generally credited with the discovery and initial characterization of the sigma-2 receptor.

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