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A landmark study led by the Latin American Genomics Consortium (LAGC), a pioneering collaborative network co-founded and co-led by Janitza Montalvo-Ortiz, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, reveals a significant disparity in psychiatric genomics research, with over 85% of participants in genome-wide association studies being of European ancestry.
- September 18, 2024
Janitza Montalvo-Ortiz, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, is featured on Atlas of Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists, a grassroots effort developed to showcase the expertise, talents, and diversity of Hispanic and Latinx scientific faculty.
- March 28, 2024
Sheila T. Nagamatsu, PhD, a Brazilian postdoctoral associate in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, has been awarded an honorable mention in the prestigious ScientistA Award Program by Dimension Science, Grupo Mulheres do Brasil—Núcleo Vale do Silício.
- December 14, 2023
Janitza Montalvo-Ortiz, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, received the Pamela Sklar Innovation Award on behalf of the Latin American Genomics Consortium (LAGC) at the 2023 World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics Awards Ceremony in Montreal, Canada, in October.
- September 22, 2023Source: Psychological Medicine
Peter Na, MD, MPH, assistant professor of psychiatry, and Robert Pietrzak, PhD, MPH, professor of psychiatry and of public health, led a research team that examined the psychosocial moderators of high alcohol consumption determined by polygenic risk in military veterans.
- August 22, 2023
Janitza Montalvo-Ortiz, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, has been awarded a grant by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for the project, “Deciphering the single-nucleus genomic regulatory structure of opioid use disorder in the human brain.”
- January 16, 2023
Enock Teefe, MD, from the laboratory of Thomas Fernandez, MD, and co-mentored by Christopher Pittenger, MD, PhD, and José Jaime Martínez-Magaña, PhD, from the laboratory of Janitza Montalvo-Ortiz, PhD, have been selected to receive the 2023 Kavli Postdoctoral Award for Academic Diversity.
- September 03, 2020
Joel Gelernter, MD, Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Genetics and of Neuroscience; and Renato Polimanti, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, will co-lead the journal Complex Psychiatry, which recently changed its name from Molecular Neuropsychiatry.
- January 28, 2020
Lynnette Averill, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Lorig Kachadourian, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; and Janitza Montalvo-Ortiz, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, were honored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs with its Career Development Award.
- February 04, 2019Source: Yale Scientific
In a new study, Yale researchers have pinpointed a specific gene responsible for regulating cannabis-induced aggression, with strong ramifications for the national discussion of cannabis legalization. Led by Janitza Montalvo-Ortiz, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, the research group implicated the serotonin 2B receptor gene (HTR2B) as the mediator between cannabis and aggressive behavior. Variance within the serotonin system, the brain’s emotional regulator, has previously been linked to impulsivity and violent behavior. The researchers scanned millions of nucleotides, the fundamental units of DNA, in a hypothesis-free genome-wide association study (GWAS) of cannabis-related physical aggression. They were surprised when this method specifically identified a result within the serotonin system. The finding, according to Montalvo-Ortiz, confirms the relationship between serotonin signaling and impulsivity.