Edythe D. London

Edythe D. London is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Studies, director of the UCLA Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology at the University of California at Los Angeles. She is known for her work on drug addiction in primates and other animals. The Web of Science lists several hundred articles published in peer-reviewed journals that have been cited over 11,000 times, leading to an h-index of 50. [Web of Science, accessed July 2, 2008.]

Her house was vandalized on October 23, 2007, in an attack claimed by the Animal Liberation Front by breaking a window of the house and inserting a garden hose which flooded the house. Over $20,000 damage was reported. ["Animal-Rights Militants Vandalize UCLA Researcher's House" By JJ Hermes [http://chronicle.com/daily/2007/10/548n.htm Chronicle of Higher Education] Tuesday, October 30, 2007 ]

Subsequently, her house was damaged by a firebomb left at the front door on Tuesday, February 5, 2008. No one was home at the time. A statement issued by the North American Animal Liberation Press Office authored by Jerry Vlasak [http://www.animalliberationpressoffice.org/press_releases/pr_08_02_06_londonburns.htm] claimed that animal liberationists were responsible for placing the device. [ "UCLA Professor's House Is Firebombed" [http://chronicle.com/news/article/3891/ucla-professors-house-is-firebombed Chronicle of Higher Education] February 6, 2008 ]

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