Monoamine Transporters

Ole Valente Mortensen, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology & Physiology at Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.  He is also Director of the Pharmacology & Physiology Graduate Program. He has a long-standing research interest in how monoamine transporters are involved in modulating monoamine signaling and associated behaviors. Dr. Mortensen obtained an MS degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan and his PhD degree from Aarhus University in Denmark. He continued his postdoctoral training under the guidance of Dr. Susan Amara at the Vollum Institute in Portland, Oregon. He was a research assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine before he joined Drexel University in 2009.