Penn Medical School Professor to Deliver Neuroscience Program Lecture at Scranton

Chang-Gyu Hahn, MD, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, will present The University of Scranton’s annual Neuroscience Lecture on Friday, March 11. He will discuss “Src kinase: A Molecular Hub in the Complex Puzzle in Schizophrenia” at the lecture, which begins at 3 p.m. in the PNC Auditorium of the Loyola Science Center.

Dr. Hahn directs the Neuropsychiatric Signal Transduction Program within the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior in the Department of Psychiatry at Penn. The laboratory program has special interest in developing new research paradigms that address clinically relevant questions for psychiatric illnesses from molecular and cell biological perspectives.

In addition to the lecture, University of Scranton students will present their research between 2 to 5 p.m. at the Fourm of Loyola Science Center.

The lecture is sponsored by the Neuroscience Program at the University. It is free of charge and open to the public.

For additional information, contact Robert Waldeck, Ph.D., associate professor and director of the neuroscience program at The University of Scranton, at 570-941-4324.