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Amy J. Eshleman, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Division of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry
1985, B.S., Biology, Portland State University Research Interests:Amy Eshleman, Ph.D., came to OHSU as a senior postdoctoral fellow on a NIDA training grant. She joined the OHSU faculty in 1992 as an assistant professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, and has been extensively involved in pharmacological research at the Portland VA Medical Center. Her primary interests are the regulation and pharmacology of the biogenic amine transporters and the role of biogenic amines in substance abuse and mental illness. A principal aim of her research is to participate in the discovery of possible therapeutics for the treatment of substance abuse, primarily cocaine and methamphetamine abuse. In addition, she is interested in the effect of intracellular second messengers on the cellular localization and function of these transporters. Her other interests include the identification and verification of genes and gene products that play a role in alcohol abuse.Dr. Eshleman is co-director of the Protein Expression Core of the Alcohol Research Center (John Crabbe, Ph.D., PI). She is first-author for over 16 peer reviewed journal articles and co-author on many more.
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