Renato Polimanti, PhD, MSc
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
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Biography
Human geneticist with a focus on biological psychiatry, human evolution, statistical genetics, and computational biology.
Education & Training
- PostdoctorateYale University School of Medicine (2016)
- PhDUniversity of Rome "Tor Vergata" (2013)
- MScUniversity of Rome "Tor Vergata" (2009)
- BScUniversity of Rome "Tor Vergata" (2008)
Honors & Recognition
| Award | Awarding Organization | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Pathway Research Award | Alkermes | 2022 |
| Rising Star Computational Psychiatry Research Award, | One Mind | 2021 |
| Research Award | Amyloidosis Foundation | 2020 |
| Early-Career Investigator | Department of Veterans Affairs, Million Veteran Program | 2019 |
| Global ASPIRE Award | Pfizer inc. | 2018 |
| Young Investigator Award | Genes | 2018 |
| Startup Challenge Award | National Institute on Drug Abuse | 2018 |
| Young Investigator Award | American Foundation for Suicide Prevention | 2017 |
| Explorer Grant | Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative | 2017 |
| Early-Career Investigator Travel Award | International Society of Psychiatric Genetics | 2016 |
| Academic Award | uBiome (Biotechnology Company) | 2016 |
| Junior Scientist Travel Award | International Journal of Molecular Sciences | 2016 |
| Early-Career Investigator Travel Award | Society of Biological Psychiatry | 2016 |
| NARSAD Young Investigator Award | Brain & Behavior Research Foundation | 2015 |
Professional Service
| Organization | Role | Date |
|---|---|---|
| International OCD Foundation | Reviewer | 2022 |
| National Science Foundation | Reviewer | 2022 |
| Agència de Qualitat i Avaluació Sanitàries de Catalunya | Reviewer | 2022 |
| Cancer Research UK | Reviewer | 2022 |
| Special Emphasis ZDE1 YM (07), NIH/NIDCR | Reviewer | 2022 |
| Mental Health Science | Editorial Board Member | 2022 - Present |
| Qatar National Research Fund | Reviewer | 2021 - 2022 |
| PeerJ | Editorial Board Member | 2021 - Present |
| Military Operational Medicine Research Program | Grant Reviewer | 2020 |
| Complex Psychiatry | Co-Editor-in-Chief | 2019 - Present |
| Auditory System Study Section, NIH/NIDCD | Grant Reviewer | 2019 |
| Scientific Reports | Editorial Board Member | 2019 - Present |
| The Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance | Grant Reviewer | 2019 - 2022 |
| American Society of Human Genetics | Reviewer for the Epstein Trainee Awards for Excellence | 2018 |
| International Society of Psychiatric Genetics/World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics | Reviewer for the Early-Career Investigator Program | 2018 - Present |
| PLOS One | Academic Editor | 2018 - Present |
| Center for Scientific Review | Early Career Reviewer | 2018 - Present |
| Israel Science Foundation | Grant Reviewer | 2018 - Present |
| Defense Medical Research and Development Program | Grant Reviewer | 2018 |
| Alzheimer’s Association | Grant Reviewer | 2018 - Present |
| Molecular Neuropsychiatry | Editorial Board Member | 2017 - 2019 |
| Israeli Minister of Science, Technology and Space | Grant Reviewer | 2017 |
| Estonian Research Council | Grant Reviewer | 2016 |
| International Journal of Alzheimer’s disease | Guest Editor | 2013 |
| Journal of Alzheimer’s disease | Associate Editor | 2012 |
| More than 50 international journals, also including top-impact publications such as Biological Psychiatry, Circulation, Genetics in Medicine, Genome Biology, Genome Medicine, Genome Research, Nature Communications, Nature Genetics, Nature Human Behavior, Molecular Psychiatry, Science Advances, and Schizophrenia Bulletin. | Ad-Hoc Reviewer | 2012 - Present |