1. Education and Training

Meet Our Postdoctoral Fellows

Meet the Friedman Brain Institute postdocs, who are committed to understanding the nervous system at the molecular, cellular, systems, and behavioral levels, under both normal and pathological conditions, and to striving toward improved treatments for brain and nervous system disorders.

  • Angelo Amabile

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

    Immunology & Immunotherapy

  • TARIK S. BEL-BAHAR
  • PAOLA BIANCHIMANO
  • ALBA BOIX AMOROS
  • Kevin Braunscheidel

    INSTRUCTOR

    Neuroscience

  • DIEDE WILHELMINA MARIA BROEKAART
  • ALICE BUONFIGLIOLI

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Neuroscience

  • MICHAEL CHARLES BURNETT
  • LEI CAO

    Senior Scientist

    Genetics and Genomic Sciences

  • Carolina Cappi

    INSTRUCTOR

    Psychiatry

  • Katelyn Challman

    ASSISTANT CLINICAL PROFESSOR

    Psychiatry

  • Jennifer Chan

    INSTRUCTOR

    Neuroscience

  • MIN CHEN

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Neuroscience

  • TING-JIUN CHEN

    Assistant Scientist

    Neuroscience

  • YUAN CHENG

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Neuroscience

  • ALEXANDRA CHISHOLM

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Psychiatry

  • Anjalika Chongtham

    INSTRUCTOR

    Neurology

  • Zoe Christenson Wick

    INSTRUCTOR

    Neuroscience

  • ELENA COCCIA

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Neuroscience

  • PHILLIP COMELLA

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Personalized Medicine Institute

  • ALBERTO CORONA

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Neuroscience

  • MATTEO DANIELETTO
  • SOROUSH DARVISH-GHANE

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Neuroscience

  • POULOMI DEY
  • Romain Durand

    INSTRUCTOR

    Neuroscience

  • SOHINI DUTTA
  • Catherine Elorette

    INSTRUCTOR

    Neuroscience

  • YU FAN

    Senior Scientist

    Genetics and Genomic Sciences

  • GABRIELA E FARIAS QUIPILDOR

    Assistant Scientist

    Neuroscience

  • POOJA FLORA
  • DAVIDE FOLLONI

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Neuroscience

  • SATOKA FUJIMOTO

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Neuroscience

  • JUDIT GARCIA GONZALEZ

    Instructor

    Genetics and Genomic Sciences

  • Marta Garcia-Forn

    INSTRUCTOR

    Psychiatry

  • FRANCESCA GARRETTI

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Genetics and Genomic Sciences

  • Bruno Giotti

    INSTRUCTOR

    Genetics and Genomic Sciences

  • Swati Gupta

    INSTRUCTOR

    Neuroscience

  • Leanne Holt

    INSTRUCTOR

    Neuroscience

  • MIN HUANG

    Clinically Advanced Physician Associate-MSQ (Specialty)

    Critical Care

  • BRANDON HUGHES
  • Aritz Irizar

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

    Population Health Science and Policy

  • Sangjo Kang

    INSTRUCTOR

    Neuroscience

  • GREGORY KRONBERG

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Psychiatry

  • Anthony Lacagnina
  • Isotta Landi

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

    Data Driven & Digital Medicine, Medicine

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

    Artificial Intelligence and Human Health

  • WONJUN LEE
  • YOU-KYUNG LEE

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Neurology

  • XINGJIAN LI

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Neurology

  • YANGMEI LI

    Senior Scientist

    Genetics and Genomic Sciences

  • XIAO LIN

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Psychiatry

  • Rachel Litke

    INSTRUCTOR

    Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine

    INSTRUCTOR

    Neuroscience

  • JERONIMO LUKIN

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Psychiatry

  • TAMARA MARKOVIC

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Neuroscience

  • ELLIOT R MERRITT
  • Ehsan Moazen-Zadeh

    ASSISTANT CLINICAL PROFESSOR

    Psychiatry

  • Adele Mossa

    INSTRUCTOR

    Psychiatry

  • LAILUN NAHAR

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Neuroscience

  • Josep Oriol Narcis Majos

    INSTRUCTOR

    Neuroscience

  • TEESTA NASKAR
  • TANYA NAUVEL

    Associate Scientist

    Neurology

  • MI NI

    Senior Scientist

    Genetics and Genomic Sciences

  • TADAAKI NISHIOKA

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Psychiatry

  • Wonsuk Oh

    INSTRUCTOR

    Artificial Intelligence and Human Health

  • Allen Pan

    INSTRUCTOR

    Neuroscience

  • Rukmani Pandey

    INSTRUCTOR

    Psychiatry

  • Tulsi Patel

    INSTRUCTOR

    Genetics and Genomic Sciences

  • KUMAR SANJANA PILLAY

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Cell, Developmental & Regenerative Biology

  • Anna Podlesny-Drabiniok

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

    Genetics and Genomic Sciences

  • Shawn Rhoads

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

    Psychiatry

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

    Neuroscience

  • Carmen Romero Molina

    INSTRUCTOR

    Genetics and Genomic Sciences

  • Anirudh Sattiraju

    INSTRUCTOR

    Neuroscience

  • JOONHO SEO

    Associate Scientist

    Psychiatry

  • RIAZ B SHAIK

    Associate Scientist

    Psychiatry

  • RAGHAVA REDDY SUNKARA

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Cell, Developmental & Regenerative Biology

  • Akhil Vaid

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

    Data Driven & Digital Medicine, Medicine

  • SINDHU VANGETI
  • XINYI WANG

    Senior Scientist

    Psychiatry

  • ZISHAN WANG

    Senior Scientist

    Genetics and Genomic Sciences

  • KRISTEN R WHITNEY

    Instructor

    Pathology

  • Eun-Jeong Yang

    INSTRUCTOR

    Neurology

  • SHIFAN YANG

    Senior Scientist

    Genetics and Genomic Sciences

  • Yun Young Yim

    INSTRUCTOR

    Neuroscience