William Corrigall, PhD is a professor of Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota and a Senior Scientist at the Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation. Prof. William Corrigall was trained in Chemistry and Biophysics, and then pursued postdoctoral research in Neurosciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. Following this, he was a research scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, with cross appointment to the Department of Physiology at the University of Toronto. During this time Dr. Corrigall conducted internationally funded research on the central nervous system mechanisms of addiction with primary a focus on nicotine and tobacco. Subsequent to this, Dr. Corrigall moved to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland where was Director of the Nicotine and Tobacco Addiction Program at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and also headed NIDA's Translational Research Branch. In this position Dr. Corrigall directed the development of program strength in nicotine and tobacco research at NIDA, and contributed to cross-institute efforts at NIH, including the NIH Roadmap.Dr. Corrigall is a past president of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco and the 2006 winner of the Langley Award for Groundbreaking Advances in Basic Nicotine Research.