Charles Nemeroff, MD, PhD

The University of Texas at Austin
Matthew P. Nemeroff Endowed Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director, Institute for Early Life Adversity Research
Co-Director, Center for Psychedelic Research & Therapy
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Research Interests
Biological basis of affective disorders, schizophrenia and anxiety disorders, and clinical research focused on the use of genetic, neuroendocrine, neuroimaging and neurochemical methods to comprehensively understand the pathophysiology of depression

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Dedra Buchwald, MD

Professor, Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Washington State University

Founding Director, Partnerships for Native Health/ Director, Initiative for Research and Education to Advance Community Health (IREACH)
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Leader, Native Research and Resources Core, ADRC

Research Interests
Research and interventions that target population health disparities and the social determinants of health, particularly among American Indians and Alaska Natives

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Kerry Ressler, MD, PhD

McLean Hospital
Chief Scientific Officer
Chief, Division of Depression and Anxiety Disorders
James and Patricia Poitras Chair in Psychiatry
Director, Neurobiology of Fear Laboratory

Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Research Interests
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of fear learning and the process of extinction of fear in mouse models to improve our understanding of and advance treatments for fear-based disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder and panic disorder

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Murray Stein, MD, MPH, FRCPC

University of California-San Diego
Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Public Health
Vice Chair for Clinical Research in Psychiatry
​Staff Psychiatrist at the VA San Diego Healthcare System

Research Interests
Epidemiology, neurobiology, and the treatment of anxiety and trauma and stress-related disorders, especially social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder

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Xihong Lin, PhD

Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Coordinating Director of the Program in Quantitative Genomics T the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Professor of the Department of Statistics at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University
Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Research Interests
Development and application of scalable statistical and machine learning methods for the analysis of massive and complex genetic and genomic, epidemiological and health data