Welcome Michael Gandal, MD PhD Hetznecker Associate Professor of Psychiatry Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania The Lifespan Brain Institute at Penn Med & The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia We are a diverse team leveraging psychiatric genetics, computational biology, functional genomics, and neuroscience to identify the biological underpinnings of -- and novel therapeutic targets for -- neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders, including autism (ASD), ADHD, schizophrenia, and bip
Perform population-level genetic and multi-OMIC profiling of the developing and adult human brain
Develop and apply integrative functional genomic methods to identify the target genes and proximal mechanisms within genetic loci associated with psychiatric disorders