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Bill Carlezon, PhD, has received several awards for his research, including an Independent Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD), the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from George W. Bush, and the Jacob...

Teresia Osborn, PhD, graduated from Gothenburg University with a MS in pharmaceutical bioscience in 2002 and a PhD in leukocyte biology in 2007. Throughout her graduate studies she was also a research fellow at the Division of Translational Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She joined the...

Donna L. McPhie, PhD, received her doctorate in physiology and biophysics with a specialization in neuroscience from Georgetown University. Her research focuses on the characterization of potential mechanisms behind bioenergetic and myelination abnormalities seen in a number of psychiatric...

Edward G. Meloni, PhD, is a Kaneb Fellow in Psychiatry and an investigator in the Behavioral Genetics Laboratory at McLean Hospital. Before joining the staff at McLean, his post-doctoral experience included research in the Psychiatry Department at Emory University and Neurology Department at Harvard...

Jakob Hartmann, PhD, is director of the Neurobehavioral Stress Resilience Laboratory at McLean and is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hartmann is the recipient of several honors and fellowships, including a research scholarship from the German Research Foundation...

Carol A. Paronis, PhD, is director of the Laboratory of Preclinical Pharmacology at McLean Hospital and an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Paronis received her PhD in pharmacology from Emory University and completed post-doctoral fellowships in pharmacology at the...

Brian D. Kangas, PhD, is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of the Translational Behavioral Pharmacology Laboratory at McLean Hospital. He first studied behavioral pharmacology while completing his PhD under the direction of Dr. Marc Branch at the University...

Yan Li, PhD, received his PhD from the Shanghai Brain Research Institute in China. During his doctoral studies he characterized anatomical substrates of synaptic integration in hypoglossal motoneurons in rats. With the help of the NIH Fogarty International Fellowship, he continued his research in...

Junghyup Suh, PhD, is an assistant neuroscientist at McLean Hospital and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He was a post-doctoral fellow and research scientist in the laboratory of Susumu Tonegawa, PhD, at MIT, where he investigated how the hippocampus and entorhinal...

Paola Salvatore, MD, is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Parma University in Italy, and research associate in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Recently she also was promoted to associate professor of psychiatry by the Italian Ministry of Education. A Parma University magna cum laude...

Jing Liu, PhD, received his PhD degree in medicinal chemistry from the Academy of Military Medical Sciences in China. He has accumulated over 12 years of research experience in medicinal chemistry, especially in drug research and development. Dr. Liu has been a post-doctoral fellow at McLean...

W. Brad Ruzicka, MD, PhD, specializes in the clinical treatment and basic investigation of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Dr. Ruzicka provides direct patient care within multiple settings in the hospital’s Division of Psychotic Disorders. Dr. Ruzicka’s research is focused on the role of...

Jeha Jeon, PhD, received his BSc from the Department of Molecular and Life Sciences at Hanyang University and PhD from the Department of Biochemistry at Hanyang University, studying neuroscience and neurodegenerative disorders. In 2016, Dr. Jeon joined the Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory as a post...

Nikolaos P. Daskalakis, MD, PhD, is the director of the Neurogenomics and Translational Bioinformatics Laboratory, part of the Advanced Bioinformatics and Computational Discovery Hub, at McLean Hospital and an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is also an affiliate...

Natalia Kolosowska, PhD, obtained her doctoral degree from the University of Eastern Finland. During her graduate studies she investigated the immunomodulatory mechanisms in animal models of ischemic stroke. Her doctoral thesis sought to address the therapeutic potential of regulating...

Oluwarotimi Folorunso, PhD, is an assistant neuroscientist in the Translational Neuroscience Laboratory. He is also director of the McLean Mental Health Research Summer Program and assistant director of outreach and community engagement for the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center at McLean. His...

Serdar Aslan, PhD, works at the intersection of the neuroscience, machine learning, deep learning, signals and systems, various mathematical areas, control theory, computational optimal transport graph theory, random matrix theory, and detection and estimation theory. He specializes in various...

Mark A. Halko, PhD, is a neuroscientist in the Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Research Program at McLean Hospital. The goal of his research is to uncover how to close the gap between fundamental neuroscience and clinical treatments. His work focuses on what fundamental neuroscience reveals about...