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Home   >  College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences   >  Faculty & Staff   >  Craige Wrenn

Craige Wrenn, BS, PhD

Craige Wrenn, BS, PhD

Professor, Pharmacology; Department Chair, Pharmaceutical and Administrative Sciences

College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences

Phone: 515-271-3326

Email: craige.wrenn@drake.edu

Biography

HONORS & AWARDS

  • Hartig Distinguished Professor (2011)
  • Mentor of the Year (2013)
  • Troyer Research Fellowship (2015)
  • Rho Chi Faculty Member of the Year (2010, 2019, 2023)

Areas of Expertise

  • Learning and memory
  • Alzheimer’s disease
  • Endocrine disruptors
  • Fragile X syndrome

Education

  • B.S., Biology, Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia, 1992
  • Ph.D., Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1999

Courses Taught

  • PHAR 119 – Topics in Neuropharmacology
  • PHAR 135 – Principles of Drug Action III
  • MSCP 202 – Pharmacology & Clinical Pharmacology I
  • MSCP 204 – Pharmacology & Clinical Pharmacology II
  • MSCP 205 – Fundamentals of Neuroscience

Latest Projects and Publications

Williamson, A.C., LeBlanc, H.R., Gentry, B.G., Wrenn, C.C. Study of daily oral genistein on spatial and olfactory memory in wild-type and transgenic mice that model Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, July 2018 

Sulkowski, B.A., Rohr, B.V., Kasra, J.F., Wrenn, C.C. Social behavior of the triple-transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, July 2018

Sulkowski, B.A., LeBlanc, H.R., Williamson, A.C., Rohr, B.V., Gentry, B.G., Wrenn, C.C. Social learning and social behavior of the triple-transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. Society for Neuroscience, October 2019

French, E., Baker, D., McCallian, R., Kirk, R., Reilly, M.P., Valdovinos, M.G. Effects of clonidine on progressive ratio schedule performance in Fmr1 knockout mice. Psychopharmacology (2021)

Klein, A.K., Andert, N.J., Sulkowski, B.A., Wrenn, C.C. Performance of 3xTg-AD mince in a social task: identification of confounds in the behavioral phenotype. Society for Neuroscience, November 2021

 Klein, A.K., Andert, N.J., Reiman, K.R., Wrenn, C.C. Relationship between barbering and dominance hierarchy in B6129SF2/J. Society for Neuroscience, November 2022

Cox, A.D., Wrenn, C.C., Valdovinos, M.G. Behavioral Pharmacology in Translational Perspectives on Applied Behavior Analysis, ed. Henry S. Roane, Andrew R. Craig, Valdeep Saini, and Joel E. Ringdahl, The Guilford Press (2024)

Valdovinos, M.G and Wrenn, C.C. ABA Meets Psychopharmacology: The Interaction of Two methodologies in A Practical Guide to Functional Assessment and Treatment for Severe Problem Behavior, ed. Joshua Jessel and Peter Sturmey, Academic Press (2025)

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