Steven Grant

Dr. Steven Grant is the Director of Research at the Heffter Research Institute since 2021, after conducting nearly 5 decades of basic and clinical research on the action of drugs on the brain. His early career focused on pre-clinical research on brain aminergic and cholinergic neurotransmitter systems. He received a Ph.D. in 1979 from the University of Georgia in BioPsychology. His post-doctoral fellowship at the Psychiatry Department of Yale School of Medicine focused on neurophysiological and behavioral studies of the brain noradrenergic system. After completion of his fellowship, he received a research faculty appointment in the Department. Subsequently, he joined the Psychology Department at the University of Delaware as an assistant professor.

His interest in the intersection of neuroscience and pharmacology started as an undergraduate when he read an article describing how psychedelic drugs act on brain serotonin receptors, and although he is now retired, he is still pursuing this original interest in psychedelic drug research up to this date.