Margaret M. McCarthy, Ph.D.
Current Position:
Professor of Physiology and Psychiatry, Associate Dean, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Research Interests/Grant support:
Research interests: My research focuses on how steroid hormones mediated sex differences in the developing brain with an emphasis on the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which this occurs. We are funded by the National Institutes of Mental Health because of the enormous gender bias in psychiatric disorders, and by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke due to effect of sex on vulnerability to and consequences of brain damage and neurodegenerative disease.
Grant support: 5 RO1 MH52716-010 (McCarthy) Amino Acid Transmitters and Brain Sexual Differences, R01 NS050525-01 (McCarthy) Estradiol and Hippocampal Development.
Relevant Experience:
Elected positions: Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology: Member: Program Committee 1998, 1999, Chair Program Committee 2000, Elected Secretary, May 2001 for 2 year term.
Editorships/Editorial boards: Biology of Reproduction, 2000 - 2004 Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 2001 – 2007 Endocrinology, 2003 -2007 Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, 2006 – Hormones and Behavior, 2008 - ASSOCIATE EDITOR Hormones and Behavior, 2004 - 2008 Journal of Neuroscience, 2007 – 2010 EDITOR Endocrinology, 2007 - 2011.
Peer Review: Study Section Member, NIDR - RFA, “Sex and Gender-Related Differences in Pain and Analgesic Response”, March 30-31, 1998. NIH Special Emphasis Panel Member - Integrative Program in Predoctoral Training in Neuroscience, Fall 2004. Member NIMH Special Emphasis Panel SMH1 ERB-L, Research Training in Neuroscience, November 2, 2005. Ad Hoc Reviewer, IFCN, National Institutes of Health, February 2008 Study Section Member, Jointly Sponsored Neuroscience Program in Predoctoral Training, ZHD1 MRG-C Ad hoc reviewer, Addiction and Memory, ZRG1 IFCN-H, October 2008 Study Section Member, NIMH COR Honors Undergraduate Research Training Review, October 2008 Ad Hoc Reviewer, Postdoctoral NRSA F30 Awards Review Commitee, ZRG1 F06-E, November 2008.
National/International Committees: International Scientific Committee for the Meeting on Steroids and Nervous System, Torino Italy, January 2006 – present, NIMH Search Committee for Director of Neuroscience and Basic Behavioral Sciences Division, January 2006., External Advisory Board of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience - Georgia State University, January 2005 – present, Sex-Based Biology: A Thought Leaders Workshop, Society for Womens’ Health Research, Washington D.C. April 7-8, 2003.
