Emmanuel S. Onaivi, PhD

Assistant Professor of Biology

Science Hall 503B
Department of Biology
William Paterson University
300 Pompton Road
Wayne NJ 07470-2103

Phone: (973)720-3453

Fax: (973)720-2338
Email: onaivie@wpunj.edu

Office Hours: MW 11 - 12:30 p.m. and by appointment

Emmanuel S. Onaivi (Assistant Professor) is a Guest at the National Institute on Drug Abuse in NIH in Baltimore, MD. He concurrently worked as a professor at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee from where he has relocated to William Paterson University in New Jersey as Assistant Professor. He received a M.Sc. degree in Pharmacology and a Ph.D. degree specializing in Neuropharmacology both from the University of Bradford, England. He is also a Pharmacist, with a B. Pharm (Hons) degree from the University of Benin and went through the Management Science program at Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, England. Although, his doctoral research was on drug abuse, he got hooked to cannabinoid research in his first Post-doctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Billy Martin at MCV-VCU in Richmond VA. There he worked on cannabinoids and anxiety in animal models and completed work on the validation of the two-compartment black and box for analysis of anxiolytic and anxiogenic compounds.

He became an Instructor at LSU-Pennington Biomedical Research and after visiting Stanford University as a Visiting Research Scientist, he was appointed to the faculty of Meharry Medical College, where his laboratory was the first to clone and sequence the mouse CB1 cannabinoid receptor gene. At Vanderbilt University, his team reported racial and gender differences in the expression of CB1 cannabinoid receptors. His current research is on cannabinoid genomics and proteomics on behavior. He is also interested in changes in anxiety and depression as a basis for addiction. During the past 15 years he has published several papers, book chapters, edited a book titled The Biology of Marijuana: From Gene to Behavior, supervised doctoral and Post-doctoral fellows and his student research was selected to be presented on Capitol Hill in Washington DC.

Courses Taught at WPUNJ:

· Course Coordinator Applied Anatomy and Physiology

· Applied Anatomy and Physiology.

· General Anatomy and Physiology to Nursing students.

· Human Biology

· Bioseminar

· Neuropsychopharmacology

· Neural Basis of Behavior

· Behavioral component of Ecology Evolution and Behavior (EEB).