Erminio Costa

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Erminio Costa

Neuropsychopharmacology (2010) 35, 2646; doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npp.2009.231

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Erminio (Mimo) Costa, one of the co-founding members of the ACNP, died on Saturday, 28 November, from complications of multiple myeloma. Dr Costa is survived by his wife Ingeborg Hanbauer and sons Michael and Max. His son Robert passed away on 1 September 2006.

Dr Costa was born in Cagliari, Italy. He earned his medical degree at the University of Cagliari in 1947 and became Professor of Pharmacology in 1954. Soon after, Dr Costa left Italy for the United States where he joined the Thudichum Research Laboratory in Galesburg, IL and then became Deputy Chief of the National Heart Institutes Laboratory of Chemical Pharmacology. His next position was at Columbia University as Director of Pharmacology of the W. Black Center and he later returned to NIH, where he directed the Laboratory of Preclinical Pharmacology of the NIMH at St Elizabeths Hospital. In 1982, Dr Costa was elected to...