Andrzej Mikołaj Pilc

Andrzej Mikołaj Pilc (born 20 April 1948) is a Polish neuropharmacologist specializing in the psychopharmacology of anxiety and depression, professor at the Maj Institute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow, and author of over five hundred scientific publications. He is a professor of medical sciences, a corresponding member of Division V of the Polish Academy of Sciences, an active member of the Medical Division of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (PAU), and a researcher of metabotropic glutamate receptors. His scientific achievements include participation in discovering increased expression of GABA B receptors under the influence of antidepressants and the antidepressant and anxiolytic effects of mGluR5 metabotropic glutamate receptor antagonists.