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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.