Dr. Duric received a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) in Kansas City under the mentorship of Dr. Kenneth McCarson in the field of Pain Neurobiology (2000-2005). His predoctoral work focused on characterization of brain events that link chronic pain state and development of comorbid mood disorders such as the major depression. In 2006, Dr. Duric completed a one year postdoctoral fellowship in Neurophysiology with Dr. Randy Nudo at the KUMC studying brain stroke in squirrel monkeys. From 2007 through 2012, Dr. Duric completed a second postdoctoral fellowship in Molecular Psychiatry with Dr. Ronald Duman at the Yale University School of Medicine focusing on neurobiology of stress and mood disorders, including genetic analysis of human depressed brains. In 2012, Dr. Duric joined the faculty in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at Des Moines University, where he currently utilizes a variety of biochemical, pharmacological and preclinical behavioral approaches to study neural mechanisms that underlie the development and treatment of depression as well as its comorbidity with other neurological and physical illnesses.