Ethan Burstein is Director of Biosciences at ACADIA, where he leads drug discovery pharmacology. Dr. Burstein has published approximately 60 peer-reviewed papers on the molecular pharmacology of receptors and discovery of small molecule receptor ligands and is one of the inventors of ACADIA‰Ûªs R-SATå¨ high-throughput screening technology. Prior to ACADIA, Dr. Burstein was a research fellow at the University of Vermont where he received a National Research Service Award Fellowship to study the biochemistry of receptor signaling. Dr. Burstein received his PhD in Toxicology at the University of Rochester.