John R. Mantsch, PhD
John R. Mantsch, PhD, as professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, effective Jan. 1, 2021. Dr. Mantsch was also awarded the Florence Williams Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology by MCW’s Board of Trustees.
Dr. Mantsch’s primary research centers on the preclinical study of neuropsychiatric disease with a focus on understand the neurobiological underpinnings of addiction. Currently, he receives funding for his research from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and has been a principal investigator on seven National Institute of Health grants totaling more than $10 million. Dr. Mantsch also is involved in central nervous system medication development and is a co-founder of Promentis Pharmaceuticals, a startup pharmaceutical company that originated in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Marquette University in Milwaukee. The company is developing novel compounds for the treatment of nervous system disorders, and its dru