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 Biography   Pierre Blier, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Psychiatry University of Ottawa Endowed Chair in Mood Disorders Research University of Ottowa Institute of Mental Health Research Canada Research Chair in Psychopharmacology Dr. Blier has been involved in studying the mechanisms of antidepressant treatment for the past quarter century. He has focused his attention on trying to learn how antidepressant medications work and how to make them work better and faster: uncovering their effects, finding new cellular targets for treatment and developing new treatments. Initially, Dr. Blier and his colleagues concentrated on the serotonin system of neurotransmission, which is believed to be a major mechanism by which antidepressants convey their effects. More recently, they have begun looking at the norepinephrine system, which has also been found to be important in mediating antidepressant response; and most recently, the interaction of the two systems. Before assuming his current post at the University of Ottowa in 2004, Dr. Blier was at McGill University for 12 years, then at the Brain Institute of the University of Florida. Dr. Blier joined NARSAD’s Scientific Council in 2000. |
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