Ashish DhirDr. Ashish Dhir is an Associate Principal Scientist in Drug Discovery for Merck in New Jersey. He was previously a Senior Scientist in the Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis in Sacramento. He received his docorate in Pharmacology from Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. He has over 15 years of experience in preclinical research in the field of neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders. Dr. Dhir's research entails establishing and validating animal models of various disease conditions, as well as investigating novel drugs and targets for disease treatment. Dr. Dhir has over 90 peer-reviewed journal papers and serves as an ad hoc reviewer and on the Editorial Board of several prestigious journals.?He was recently named to the list of the world's top 2% pharmacology scientists (ranking 1053 out of 94611). Dr. Dhir has received numerous honors, including the Rafaelsen Young Investigator Award from the Collegium International Neuropsychopharmacologicum (CINP). Read More Read Less