Embera NeuroTherapeutics, Inc.
BioSpace1, 2031 Kings Highway
Shreveport, LA 71103
BioSpace1, 2031 Kings Highway
Shreveport, LA 71103
Embera Management Team
Embera Board of Directors
Scientific Advisory Board
- Kathleen Brady, MD, Ph.D.
- George Koob, Ph.D.
- Bruce McCarthy, MD
- Charles O'Brien, MD, Ph.D.
- Rajita Sinha, Ph.D.
Investors
Rajita Sinha, Ph.D.
Rajita Sinha, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Yale Research Program on Stress, Addiction and Psychopathology. She has been the Director of Addiction Services at the Connecticut Mental Health Center where she oversaw the treatment of addictive disorders inpatients with varied psychiatric illnesses. Dr. Sinha is a leading expert in translational clinical neuroscience where she has pioneered the research linking stress to drug craving, compulsive drug seeking and relapse in humans. She has served as Principal Investigator of many independent research grants and is also Principal Investigator of a NIH funded Center on gender differences in stress and substance use disorders. She has been active in local and national organizations that address the prevention and treatment issues relating to mental health and addiction. She has published extensively in this area and has made numerous presentations at scientific conferences across the world. She has also served on several panels for the NIH to review scientific research in the areas of stress, neuroscience of addiction and treatment development.