Dr. Robert Messing

Biography

Robert Messing, M.D., is the director of the Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research and a professor in the Department of Neurology at the Dell Medical School. He earned his Bachelor of Arts with honors in History in 1974 and received his medical degree from Stanford University in 1979. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Virginia from 1979 to 1981 and in Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco from 1981 to 1984. Afterwards, he continued his training with a postdoctoral fellowship in Neuroscience at UCSF from 1984 to 1986. He joined the UCSF neurology faculty in 1986 and has been actively involved in various research initiatives, including serving as a principal investigator at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and as the founding director of the NIAAA-funded Alcohol Center for Translational Genetics. In 2013, he joined the University of Texas at Austin, where he played a key role in launching the Dell Medical School. As of September 2017, he became the director of the Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research. He is also a senior adviser to the dean regarding research strategy.

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