Research Associate
Biological Psychiatry Analytic Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry
The University of Texas
Health Science Center at San Antonio
Biographical Sketch
Currently David works as a Research Associate on the NRLC project Impulsivity and Biological Markers for Suicidality and Drug Use in Adolescents (R01-MH077684). Before joining the NRLC, David worked as a Research Associate at the University of Texas at Austin's Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research. There he studied the effects of ethanol exposure on dopaminergic signaling, focusing primarily on DARPP-32 phosphorylation in vivo and dopamine transporter (DAT)-mediated dopamine uptake in vitro.
Education
1999 | B.A. | Psychology | The University of Texas, Austin, TX |
2008 | M.B.A. | Health Care Management | Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA |
Interests
- Softball
- Music
- Film and Theater
Presentations/Publications with the NRLC
SERT function in lymphoblastoid cell lines (cells that last) Hill-Kapturczak, N., Dougherty, D. M., Mathias, C. W., Richard, D. M., Tian, P. Y., Galindo, D., and Javors, M. (2011, May) Poster presented at the 9th annual retreat of the UTHSCSA Center for Biomedical Neuroscience, San Antonio, TX |