Dr MICHAEL GANDAL

THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, USA

Michael Gandal, MD PhD, is the William & Noreen Hetznecker Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Genetics, and Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and the Lifespan Brain Institute at Penn Med and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). A psychiatrist, Dr. Gandal is the Clinical Director of the Neurodevelopment Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic at Penn and leading Investigator within the Autism Spectrum Program of Excellence. Dr. Gandal runs the Developmental Neurogenomics research laboratory, which leverages large-scale genetic and genomic approaches to uncover the biological mechanisms contributing to risk and resilience for neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders. He received his B.S. in engineering (biomedical computation) from Stanford University and his M.D./Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He competed residency training in adult psychiatry at UCLA, and a postdoctoral fellowship in neurogenetics in the laboratory of Dan Geschwind. Dr. Gandal has published more than 100 manuscripts to date and his work has been cited over 20,000 times.