Renato Polimanti, PhD, MSc
Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Associate Professor on Term, Chronic Disease Epidemiology
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
Departments & Organizations
- Center for Biomedical Data Science
- Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics
- Division of Human Genetics
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
- Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology
- Neuroscience Track
- Polimanti Lab
- Program in Translational Biomedicine (PTB)
- Yale Center for Genomic Health
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)