John H. Krystal

John H. Krystal, M.D. ’84, HS ’88, the Robert L. McNeil Jr. Professor of Translational Research and chair of the Department of Psychiatry, was installed as president of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology in December. He will serve a one-year term, studying the neurobiology and treatment of psychiatric disorders. Krystal is a pioneer in translational neuroscience, which is the effort to link concepts and approaches arising from basic brain research to the study of the neurobiology and treatment of psychiatric disorders. He has applied this strategy to develop and test new approaches to treating schizophrenia, PTSD, alcoholism, and depression. Krystal also directs Yale’s Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcoholism, which is funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and he is a member of the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. He is also a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.