Scientific Founder and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of American Life Science Pharmaceuticals and Professor in the Department of Pharmacy, University of California, San Diego
Vivian Hook, Ph.D.
Vivian Hook, Ph.D. is the scientific Founder and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of American Life Science Pharmaceuticals and is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacy, University of California, San Diego. Professor Hook has over 20 years experience in the field of neuroprotease research and is the author of numerous scientific articles and books on that subject. Dr. Hook previously was a Professor at the Buck Institute for Aging Research, Novato, California, Professor of Medicine and Neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego and a Professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. She was trained as a molecular pharmacologist and did post-doctoral studies at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, with Dr. Julius Axelrod, a Nobel Prize winner for his research in neuroscience. She holds a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of California, San Francisco and a BA in Medical Physics from the
University of California, Berkeley.
