Colleen McClung

Education and career

In 1990, McClung began her undergraduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating in 1994 with a major in biology and a minor in Chemistry. In the year of 1995, McClung became a student at the graduate department of the University of Virginia, and in 2001 she received a PhD in biology from the same institution. In 2001, McClung started her postdoctoral work in the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center working with Eric J. Nestler; she remained there until 2003 when she became an instructor in the department of psychiatry at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. From 2005 until 2011, she was an assistant professor at the same department. In 2011, McClung became an associate professor at the Psychiatry Department at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School. In 2017, she was promoted to professor.