Dr Nastassja Koen (MBChB, PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health at the University of Cape Town, South Africa (UCT) and Head of the Division of Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. She also co-heads the Psychiatric Genetics Group in the Brain-Behaviour Unit in UCT’s Neuroscience Institute, and serves as incumbent […]

Allan is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with the NeuroGAP-Psychosis study at the Department of Psychiatry, Makerere University and as well a Senior Fellow of the Global Initiative for Neuropsychiatric Genetics Education in Research (GINGER) program of MIT and Harvard. He is also currently a NARSAD young investigator and his work is investigating the genetic risk […]

Felicita is a consultant psychiatrist and associate lecturer at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Eldoret Western Kenya. She has a bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery, a master’s degree in psychiatry, a fellowship in neuropsychiatric genetic research and enrolled to begin a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Albury Health New South Wales Australia. […]

Andrea Ganna is a group leader at the Finnish Institute for Molecular Medicine and an instructor at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.Previously he did his post-doc at the Analytical and Translation Genetic Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School/Broad Institute and his PhD at Karolinska Institute. His research interests lie on the intersection between […]

Sali Farhan is a Postdoctoral Fellow with Benjamin Neale and Mark Daly. She completed her PhD in Biochemistry and Genetics at Robarts Research Institute at Western University in Canada. Her PhD research focused on identifying the genetic basis of Mendelian diseases and complex neurodegenerative diseases primarily amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia. Currently, she is […]

Duncan Palmer is a postdoctoral fellow in the Ben Neale Lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. After working viral on evolution, where he studied the interaction between HIV and the CTL immune response, he switched countries and genome lengths and began working on human genetics in the spring of 2016. He is currently […]

Hailiang Huang is an instructor at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also an associated scientist at the Broad Institute. His research focuses on developing new statistical and analytical methods to understand the genetic factors driving complex disorders, especially autoimmune and psychiatric disorders. His studies use large-scale data from various consortia and public […]

Elizabeth Atkinson is a postdoc at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, co-advised by Drs. Mark Daly and Ben Neale and working closely with Dr. Karestan Koenen. She did her PhD at Washington University in St. Louis, followed by receiving an NIH Institutional Research and Career Development Award at Stony Brook […]

Alicia Martin is an Instructor in Investigation at the Analytic & Translational Genetics Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an Associate Member of the Broad Institute affiliated with the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research and the Medical and Population Genetics Program. As a population and statistical geneticist, her research examines the role of […]