Davide Amato

Davide Amato is an Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati whose research focuses on developing mechanism-based treatments for stimulant use disorder and related psychiatric conditions. Rather than treating stimulant use disorder as a single condition, his work examines specific clinically relevant symptoms and the neurobiological pathways that may drive them, with the goal of identifying more targeted therapeutic strategies. His team is investigating a dual-acting drug approach that has demonstrated promising preclinical effects on cocaine relapse vulnerability and drug intake following relapse. His work aims to advance this research toward a first-in-class relapse-preventive pharmacotherapy, initially for cocaine use disorder, with potential relevance to other stimulant use disorders.