John Krystal, MD
MPI of the Yale CTSA UL1 and Co-Director of the YCCI
Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Translational Research and Professor of Psychiatry, of Neuroscience, and of Psychology; Co-Director, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation; Chair, Psychiatry; Physician-in-Chief of Psychiatry, Yale New Haven Hospital; Director: NIAAA Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcoholism; Director, Clinical Neuroscience Division, VA National Center for PTSD
Dr. Krystal is a leading expert in the areas of alcoholism, post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, and depression. Best known for his role in the discovery of the antidepressant effects of ketamine, his work links psychopharmacology, neuroimaging, molecular genetics, and computational neuroscience to study the neurobiology and treatment of these disorders. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine. He also serves in a variety of advisory and review capacities for NIAAA, NIMH, Welcome Trust, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, the Broad Institute, and the Karolinska Institute.
Dr. Krystal also serves in a number of leadership capacities. He chairs the Yale Department of Psychiatry and co-leads the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation as well as an MPI of the Yale CTSA. He also serves as Director of the Clinical Neuroscience Division of the National Center for PTSD (VA) and Co-Director of the NIAAA Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcohol. Outside of Yale, he serves as editor of Biological Psychiatry and co-Director of the Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. He has served in numerous other leadership and advisory roles, some listed below. He also is co-founder of Freedom Biosciences, a start-up that is developing mechanistically novel treatments for depression and PTSD.
Dr. Krystal has mentored over 55 young scientists from diverse backgrounds, many of whom have gone on to impactful independent careers including roles as deans, department chairs, scientists with named professorships, CEO/CSOs of biotechnology/pharmaceutical/healthcare companies, and other senior roles. They have received numerous honors, including membership in the National Academy of Medicine.