Erminio Costa

Background

Costa, Erminio was born on March 9, 1924 in Cagliari, Italy.

Education

Doctor of Medicine, University Cagliari, 1947. Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmacology, University Cagliari, 1953. Doctor of Philosophy in Biological Science (honorary), University Cagliari, Italy, 1986.

Doctor of Science (honorary), Georgetown University, 1992. Doctor of Medicine (honorary), University Tampere, Finland, 1992.

Career

He published more than 1000 articles The June 2011 issue of the journal Neuropharmacology was dedicated to him. July, 1947 - Doctor of Medicine 110/110 cum laude, University of Cagliari, Italy

1950-1960 - Thudichum Psychiatric Research Laboratory, Galesburg Research Hospital, Galesburg, Illinois

1960-1965 - Deputy Chief, Laboratory of Chemical Pharmacology at NHLI - National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

1965-1968 - Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, New York

1968-1985 - Chief of the Laboratory of Preclinical Pharmacology, National Institute of Mental Health, Saint Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia

1994-1995 - Director, Center for Neuropharmacology, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, New York University, New York, New York

1995 - Scientific Director, Psychiatric Institute, Professor of Biochemistry in Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

1982 - Member, National Academy of Sciences.

Achievements

• Erminio Costa has been listed as a noteworthy pharmacologist, cell biologist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Neurosteroids and Brain Function (Fidia Research Foundation Symposium Series)

    (This book discusses the topics from a satellite to the 21...)

  • Nonstriatal dopaminergic neurons (Advances in biochemical psychopharmacology)

    (Biochemical Psychopharmacology)

  • The Endorphins - Vol. 18
  • Monoamine Oxidases - New Vistas (Advances in Biochemical Psychopharmacology, V. 5)
  • Biochemistry of Simple Neuronal Models - Advances in Biochemical Psychopharmacology Vol. 2
  • Role of Vitamin B-Six in Neurobiology (Advances in Biochemical Psychopharmacology)
  • Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry in neurobiology (Advances in biochemical psychopharmacology)

Membership

Member of National Academy of Sciences, American Society Biological Chemistry and Molecular Biology, American Society Physiology, American Society Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Academia Nazionale Lincei, Peripatetic Club, Cosmos Club.

Connections

Son of Oreste and Gigina (Murgia) Costa. Divorced; children: Max, Robert Henry, Michael John. Married Ingeborg Hanbauer, July 13, 1973.

Father:

Oreste Costa

Mother:

Gigina (Murgia) Costa

Spouse:

Ingeborg Hanbauer

child:

Robert Henry Costa

child:

Max Costa

child:

Michael John Costa