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Blumberg, Cosgrove, Pittenger Elected to Connecticut Academy of Science & Engineering

February 26, 2024

Three faculty in the Yale Department of Psychiatry have been elected to membership in the Connecticut Academy of Science & Engineering (CASE).

Hilary Blumberg, MD, John and Hope Furth Professor of Psychiatric Neuroscience and Professor of Psychiatry, and in the Child Study Center and of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging; Kelly Cosgrove, PhD, professor of psychiatry and of neuroscience and of radiology and biomedical imaging; and Christopher Pittenger, MD, PhD, Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry, will be recognized at CASE’s 49th annual meeting and dinner, to be held in Branford on May 21, 2024.

They are among 35 of Connecticut’s leading experts in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine to be elected to membership in 2024.

Scientists are nominated for election to CASE by members through an annual election process. Members must live or work in Connecticut. They are elected by the current membership for their accomplishments in science, engineering, and/or technology.

CASE was chartered by the Connecticut General Assembly in 1976 to provide expert guidance on science and technology to the people and state of Connecticut, and to promote the application of science and technology to human welfare and economic well-being.

Blumberg is director of the Mood Disorders Research Program at Yale. Cosgrove is co-director of the T32 Translational Alcohol Research Program in Psychiatry and Public Health at Yale. Pittenger is deputy chair for translational research in the Yale Department of Psychiatry and director of the Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit, Yale Program for Psychedelic Science, Yale Center for Brain and Mind Health, Yale OCD Research Clinic, and the Neuroscience Research Training Program.

Submitted by Christopher Gardner on February 26, 2024