Margaret McCarthy

Please join us for a Special Neuroscience for Mental Health Seminar on October 6, 2025, at 11:00 AM.

Speaker

Margaret M. McCarthy, PhD
Director, UM-MIND
James and Carolyn Frenkil Dean’s Endowed Professor, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Drug Development
University of Maryland School of Medicine

Title

Power Play: How Adolescent Social Behavior Sculpts Rat Brain Development

Biography

Margaret (Peg) McCarthy received a PhD from the Institute of Animal Behavior at Rutgers University, Newark NJ, completed postdoctoral training at Rockefeller University in New York NY and was a National Research Council Fellow at NIH-NIAAA before joining the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1993 in Baltimore Maryland, USA. She was a Professor in the Department of Physiology before becoming the Chair of the Department of Pharmacology in 2011 in which capacity she served until 2024.

McCarthy has a long-standing interest in the cellular mechanisms establishing sex differences in the brain. She uses a combined behavioral and mechanistic approach in the laboratory rat to understand both normal brain development and how these processes might go selectively awry in males versus females.

McCarthy is the inaugural Director of the University of Maryland – Medicine Institute for Neuroscience Discovery (UM-MIND), a fellow with AAAS and ACNP and former President of the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences and the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2024.

How to participate

The talk will be held in Room E-3517 (Perry Pavillion).
We would love to see you in person, but if you cannot make it, you can join us virtually:

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