Erin S. Calipari (born February 18, 1987)[1] is an Associate Professor of Pharmacology at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Basic Sciences.

Calipari looks to understand the brain circuitry that is used for adaptive and maladaptive processes in reward, associative learning and motivation.

[3] Calipari attended University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she studied biology and played basketball for the UMass Minutewomen.

Her most impactful moment was hitting a desperation three-point shot against Rhode Island with only 8 seconds left, clinching a 79-49 victory.

[5] Calipari was a graduate student at Wake Forest University, where she earned a doctorate in neuropharmacology under the supervision of Sara Jones.

[3] Calipari was a postdoctoral research associate in a genetics laboratory at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.