国际神经肽学会主席   Peptides 杂志主编   Louisiana 州立大学 Pennington 生物医学研究中心 Professor AJ Kastin     Neuropeptide concept: Special relevance to Blood Brain Barrier     地     点：北大医学部 新教学楼 303 室 时     间： 5 月 10 日 3pm 主     持：韩济生院士 主办单位：北大医学部 科研处             神经科学研究所   Brief  introduction to Prof.　A.J. Kastin： Abba J. Kastin was born in Ohio and educated at Harvard College and Medical School. After starting his work on neuropeptides at NIH, he went to Louisiana where he now holds an endowed chair at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center. Dr Kastin has been made an honorary member of 7 foreign medical societies, has received 2 honorary doctorates (1 American and 1 foreign), and has won several national and international awards. Author of more than 800 papers, he has been listed among the 100 researchers most cited (25,000) in the scientific literature. He is president of The International Neuropeptide Society and has been editor-in-chief of the international journal Peptides for its entire 25+ years