After completion of his Ph.D. in 1951, Dr. Brady went to the Walter Reed Institute of Research where he joined one of the first interdisciplinary neuropsychiatric research teams and began two productive decades in the laboratory. He collaborated on some landmark studies in what was then identified as “physiological psychology” but is now known as “behavioral neuroscience.” A series of papers in the 1950s not only showed the usefulness of animal models of “emotional behavior” for testing the effects of psychoactive drugs, but led to the enthusiastic embrace of behavioral pharmacology by the pharmaceutical industry.  Dr. Brady received one of the earliest grants from the National Institute for Mental Health to establish the first Behavioral Pharmacology Center at the University of Maryland in College Park. The advent of the Sputnik era launched Dr. Brady’s career into another  direction. He was responsible for training the monkeys who were the first U.S. organisms to brave space flight in the nose cone of one of Werner von Braun’s ballistic missiles. He was involved in animal pretest flights including the first orbital flight with John Glenn’s predecessor, the chimpanzee named Ham. Dr. Brady would later establish a human programmed environment research laboratory at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He founded the Division of Behavioral Biology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins and for more than three decades has continued to direct research and educational activities at the medical school in the areas of behavior analysis and behavioral physiology, pharmacology, and medicine. Dr. Brady was a founder of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

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