Dr. Mark Thomas, Ph.D. is a professor of neuroscience and Director of the University of Minnesota’s Medical Discovery Team on Addiction, a research team of 60 faculty funded by the state legislature to fuel cross-disciplinary collaborative research to discover new effective biology-based treatments for Substance Use Disorders.
Dr. Thomas received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from UCLA in 1998, and completed postdoctoral training in Psychiatry at Stanford and Psychology at the University of Michigan before joining the faculty at the University of Minnesota in 2003. His research examines how addictive drugs alter the brain and how these brain changes can lead to compulsive drug use. His lab is now focusing on ways to disrupt addiction relapse.