Angus C Nairn did his undergraduate training in biochemistry at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and his Ph.D. in muscle biochemistry at Birmingham University, England. He then carried out postdoctoral research in molecular neuroscience at Yale University and moved to Rockefeller University in 1983 as a faculty member. He moved back to Yale University in 2001, where he is currently the Charles B.G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry. He also holds a joint appointment in the Department of Pharmacology. He is co-director of the Yale/National Institute of Drug Abuse Neuroproteomics Center at the Yale School of Medicine.