Senior Research Scientist
Friends Research Institute, Inc
Baltimore, Maryland
Frank J Vocci, PhD; President and Senior Research Scientist, Friends Research Institute, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland
Following a post-doctoral fellowship in addiction pharmacology at the Medical College of Virginia, Dr. Frank Vocci spent 11 years at the FDA where he reviewed applications for marketing of analgesic medications and also participated in domestic and international drug scheduling issues. In 1989, he joined the Medications Development Program at the National Institute on Drug Abuse and became the Director of the Division of Pharmacotherapies and Medical Consequences of Drug Abuse (DPMC) in 1997. During his tenure at NIDA, four addiction drug products that were developed or co-developed by his division were approved by the FDA and another was approved following his retirement from NIH in 2010. Following his retirement from NIDA in December 2008 Dr. Vocci became President of Friends Research Institute in January 2009. He has published over 120 articles and book chapters and has participated as a grant reviewer for the Department of Defense, the Veterans Administration, the National Institutes of Health, the Brain Research Foundation, and the Peter Dodge Foundation, He is a Past-President of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence and a co-editor of the Journal of Addiction Medicine.
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Disclosure(s): Braeburn Pharmaceuticals: Other Research Support (includes receipt of drugs, supplies, equipment or other in-kind support) (Ongoing); Relmada Therapeutics: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing); Takeda Pharmaceutical Company: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing)
