Eugenia V. Gurevich, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department ofPharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. She was trained in Neuroscience (1980) and received her PhD in Psychopharmacology (1985) in Moscow University, Moscow, Russia. From 1996-1992, she conducted research in the Institute of Biological Physics, Pushchino, Russia, before joining the laboratory of Jeffrey N. Joyce in the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. In 1995, she moved to the Parkinson's Research Center, Sun Health Research Institute, Sun City, AZ, as a Staff Scientist and in 2001 joined the faculty at Vanderbilt University. Supported by NINDS, NIH, and NARSAD, her laboratory is actively investigating the regulation of dopamine receptor signaling and the role of the G protein-coupled receptors' desensitization and trafficking machinery in brains disorders such as Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia.