The keynote address of Carroll College’s 2025 Student Research Festival will take place on April 24, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. in the Lower Campus Center. Carroll alum Bryan L. Roth MD, PhD, '77, the Michael Hooker Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Medicine, will present the keynote address.
This event is free and open to the public. Dessert will be served after the event.
About Bryan L. Roth MD, PhD
Bryan L. Roth MD, PhD is the Michael Hooker Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Medicine. Dr. Roth received his BA from Carroll College in 1977 and an MD and PhD (Biochemistry) from St. Louis University in 1983 and subsequently trained in pharmacology (NIH), molecular biology (Stanford), and Psychiatry (Stanford). Before coming to UNC, Dr. Roth was a Professor of Psychiatry and Biochemistry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, where his clinical specialty was treatment-resistant schizophrenia.
Dr. Roth has published more than 500 papers in the general areas of molecular pharmacology, structural biology, and synthetic biology, including more than 40 papers published in Science, Nature, and Cell over the past decade. Scientific highlights include the creation of the widely used chemogenetic platform dubbed ‘DREADDs’ and the elucidation of the structures of LSD and antipsychotic drugs bound to their molecular targets. Dr. Roth has been a ‘Highly Cited Scientist’ for many years, and his work has nearly 100,000 citations.
Dr. Roth was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2014 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019. He has received many honors including the Westheimer Prize (Harvard University, Chemistry), the Goodman and Gilman Award for Receptor Pharmacology (American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics), the PhRMA Foundation Excellence in Pharmacology Award, a NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award, and the IUPHAR Analytical Pharmacology Lectureship. Dr. Roth has also given more than 40 named lectures, including a Presidential Special Lecturer at the 2018 Society for Neurosciences meeting.