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David S. Bredt is an American molecular neuroscientist. After studies in chemistry at Princeton, Bredt studied medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where he obtained M.D and Ph.D degrees. He was a student of Solomon H. Snyder, with whom he also co-authored several widely cited papers. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins from 1993 to 1994. He became a 1995 Searle scholar, and received a 1997 Beckman Young Investigators Award. He worked at Johnson & Johnson from 2011 to 2021 as global head of neuroscience discovery.