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Since 2018, Torsten Klengel, MD, PhD, has been the director of the Translational Molecular Genomics Laboratory at McLean Hospital, with a secondary affiliation at the University of Goettingen, Germany. In 2014, Dr. Klengel joined the Neurobiology of Fear Laboratory, led by Kerry J. Ressler, MD, PhD...

Lauren A. M. Lebois, PhD, is a cognitive neuroscientist who is passionate about understanding how the mind, brain, and body adapt in the aftermath of trauma. She prioritizes translating scientific breakthroughs in accessible, compelling, and clinically relevant ways. Dr. Lebois’ NIMH-funded research...

Frank Tarazi, MBBS, PhD, MBA is an associate professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and director of the Laboratory in Pharmacoeconomics and Health Outcomes at McLean Hospital. He is a preclinical and clinical expert on Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia, depression...

Elif Engin, PhD, grew up in Ankara, Turkey, and earned her undergraduate and master’s degrees at Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara. She completed her doctoral work in the laboratory of Dr. Dallas Treit in Edmonton, Alberta, and was awarded a PhD Thesis Award from the Canadian...

Sabina Berretta, MD, began her research training under the mentorship of Dr. V. Perciavalle at University of Catania, Italy. In 1990, she joined the laboratory directed by Dr. A. M. Graybiel in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, working neural circuitry linking the motor cortex...

Dr. Ole Isacson is a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and founding director of the Neuroregeneration Research Institute at McLean Hospital. His work is focused on the understanding and treatments of neurodegenerative disease, with particular emphasis on distinguishing critical...

Penny Hallett, PhD, is an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and co-director of the Neuroregeneration Research Institute (NRI). She received her PhD from the University of Manchester, UK, and completed post-doctoral studies at Massachusetts General Hospital, moving in 2006...

Young Cha, PhD, received his PhD in stem cell biology from CHA University in Korea. During his PhD studies, his scientific interest was to identify novel factors which are involved in the maintenance of self-renewality and pluripotency of embryonic stem cells. He joined the Molecular Neurobiology...

Woori Kim, PhD, received her BSc, MSc, and PhD in biochemistry from Hanyang University. She joined the Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory in 2014 as a post-doctoral fellow.

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...

Elena H. Chartoff, PhD, is an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of the Neurobiology of Motivated Behavior Laboratory at McLean Hospital. She is interested in the neurobiological mechanisms that connect depression and anxiety with drug addiction. The work in her...

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...

Rajeev I. Desai, PhD, is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of the Integrative Neurochemistry Laboratory at McLean Hospital. Dr. Desai received his PhD in psychology/behavioral pharmacology at the University of Birmingham, U.K. He completed post-doctoral...

Bin Song, PhD, works on signaling transduction and gene regulation of neuronal survival and apoptosis (programmed cell death) in service of the development of new therapeutic targets for treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease (PD). Dr. Song’s early research was focused...

Claudia Lopes, PhD, is interested in developing a human pluripotent stem cell-derived three-dimensional organoid culture system, to mimic distinct cerebral regions. Because organoids contain progenitor populations that develop to yield mature cortical neuron subtypes, this technology will make it...

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...