Area of research
Biological Psychiatry · Behavioral Neuroscience
Research interest
Research interests include Tryptophan and brain disorders, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence, and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation.
Integrating human endogenous retroviruses into transcriptome-wide association studies highlights novel risk factors for major psychiatric conditions
Lithium treatment and human hippocampal neurogenesis
Identifying FDA-approved drugs with multimodal properties against COVID-19 using a data-driven approach and a lung organoid model of SARS-CoV-2 entry
Interferon-γ signaling in human iPSC–derived neurons recapitulates neurodevelopmental disorder phenotypes
Telomere length and human hippocampal neurogenesis
Prolactin, Estradiol and Testosterone Differentially Impact Human Hippocampal Neurogenesis in an In Vitro Model
The Psychiatric Risk Gene NT5C2 Regulates Adenosine Monophosphate-Activated Protein Kinase Signaling and Protein Translation in Human Neural Progenitor Cells
Inflammatory profiles of severe treatment-resistant depression
The polygenic nature of telomere length and the anti-ageing properties of lithium
Growth Factor Proteins and Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Place on the Path to Precision
Telomere Length and Bipolar Disorder
Assessing the contributions of childhood maltreatment subtypes and depression case-control status on telomere length reveals a specific role of physical neglect
Putative Transcriptomic Biomarkers in the Inflammatory Cytokine Pathway Differentiate Major Depressive Disorder Patients from Control Subjects and Bipolar Disorder Patients
The inflammatory cytokines: molecular biomarkers for major depressive disorder?
DNA methylation in interleukin-11 predicts clinical response to antidepressants in GENDEP
Depression‐Related Behavioral Tests
Tumor necrosis factor and its targets in the inflammatory cytokine pathway are identified as putative transcriptomic biomarkers for escitalopram response