Skip To Main Content
Site Name Here
MenuSearchA-ZSeven Schools One UniversitySeven Schools One University

Menu

  • Give
  • Apply
  • Visit
Close Menu
About
  • Administrative Offices
  • Campus Maps
  • Core Values
  • Fast Facts
  • Travel and International Services
  • Other USM Schools
  • Policies and Procedures
  • Strategic Plan
  • Sustainability
  • Middle States
  • MPowering the State
  • News
  • University Leadership
  • UMB Experts Guide
Academics
  • Academic Calendar
  • Academy of Lifelong Learning
  • Blackboard
  • Libraries
  • Office of the Provost
  • SURFS
  • UMB Program Explorer
Admissions
  • Financial Aid
  • International Students
  • Military and Veterans
  • Office of the Registrar
Research
  • Breakthroughs Can’t Wait
  • Offices and Contacts
  • Resources for Investigators
  • Services for Investigators
  • UMB Research Profile
University Life
  • Arts and Culture
  • Bookstore
  • Emergency
  • Housing
  • Museums
  • Parking and Transportation Services
  • Rooms Available on Campus
  • SMC Campus Center
  • Student Organizations
  • Student Policies
  • URecFit and Wellness
  • UMB shuttle
  • Welcome to Baltimore
  • One Card
Info For
  • Current Students
  • Faculty and Staff
  • Alumni and Donors
  • Community Members
Resources
  • The Elm
  • Calendar
  • myUMB
  • Directory
  • Blackboard
  • SURFS
  • Emergency
  • UMB Shuttle
Seven Schools One University

Search

Close Menu
Common Searched Terms
  • Graduation 2025
  • Campus Tour
  • Jobs at UMB
  • Parking
  • Tuition Remission
  • Registrar
  • Qualtrics
  • Human Resources
  • URecFit and Wellness
  • Tuition
  • Help Desk

A–Z

Close Menu
    Covid Forum
    UMB Academy of Lifelong Learning

    Featured Experts

    1. UMB Home
    2. Academics
    3. Academy of Lifelong Learning
    4. Ask UMB Experts
    5. Covid Forum
    6. Featured Experts
    • UMB HomeAcademicsAcademy of Lifelong LearningAsk UMB ExpertsCovid ForumFeatured Experts
    • Featured Experts
    • UMB Insights
    • Ask an Expert
    • Answers to Your Questions
    • Additional Resources

    Margaret M. McCarthy, PhD

    Margaret M. McCarthyMargaret “Peg” McCarthy is the James & Carolyn Frenkil Endowed Dean’s Professor, and professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM).

    McCarthy is a native of St. Louis and received a bachelor's degree and master’s degree in biology from the University of Missouri. She then moved East to attend Rutgers University in Newark, N.J., where she received a PhD from the Institute of Animal Behavior followed by postdoctoral training at Rockefeller University in New York City.

    She was a National Research Council fellow at the National Institutes of Health before joining the faculty of the Department of Physiology at UMSOM in 1993. McCarthy was the associate director of the Program in Neuroscience and the inaugural director of the graduate program in life sciences as an assistant and then associate dean before becoming the chair of the Department of Pharmacology in 2011. 

    She was also appointed as the director of the Program in Neuroscience.

    McCarthy has been recognized with the Patricia Sokolove Outstanding Mentor Award by the Graduate Student Association, Researcher of the Year and a Champion of Excellence by the University of Maryland, Baltimore as well as being named one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women. She is past president of the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences, a member of the Dana Alliance on Brain Research, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

    For the past three decades, McCarthy and her colleagues have been exploring brain development in an animal model to understand how the nervous system is formed in both health and disease. She has discovered novel mechanisms by which male and female brains become differentially vulnerable to the impact of injury and inflammation, which can have lifelong consequences for risk of neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders. McCarthy is strongly committed to scientific training, having directly supervised over three dozen graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and hosted over 50 summer interns and visiting foreign scientists from Iran, Pakistan, Italy, Spain, Japan, Brazil, and Mexico. She is a highly sought-after speaker locally and internationally and has published close to 250 scientific manuscripts.

    She is also the proud mother of two children for whom she shares credit with her husband.


    • Back to Featured Experts

    Contact

    UMB Academy of Lifelong Learning

    Nick Kouwenhoven
    Executive Director, Academy of Lifelong Learning

    all_learn@umaryland.edu
    Facebook YouTube

    UMB Academy of Lifelong Learning

    Disclaimer

    Connect with Us

    Donate Subscribe to the Quarterly Digital Newsletter
    University of Maryland Baltimore

    The University of Maryland, Baltimore is the founding campus of the University System of Maryland.

    620 W. Lexington St., Baltimore, MD
    21201 | 410-706-3100

    • The Elm
    • Calendar
    • Emergency
    • Mobile UMB
    • UMB Shuttle
    • myUMB
    • Directory
    • IT Help Desk
    • Facilities Work Request
    • Jobs
    • Middle States
    • Strategic Plan
    • Sustainability
    • Clery Report
    • UMB Hotline
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • Instagram
    • LinkedIn
    • YouTube
    The University of Maryland, Baltimore prohibits sex discrimination in any education program or activity that it operates. Individuals may report concerns or questions to the Title IX Coordinator. Read the UMB Notice of Non-Discrimination.
    © 2024-2025 University of Maryland, Baltimore. All rights reserved.
    • Privacy Policy
    • Web Accessibility
    • Web Feedback
    • Non-Discrimination