Attività di Ricerca

Research Focus

I am interested in the mechanisms that make humans different from one another, i.e., developmental trajectories and how to modify them via training or novel drugs. My vision is to translate research into actionable knowledge to allow individuals at risk of mental illness to change the course of their life.

At the LIBD, I develop statistical approaches to identify potential novel drug targets based on functional genomics and validate them via clinical, neuroimaging, and behavioral predictions. The driving idea is that risk genes for psychiatric disorders converge onto gene co-expression networks and explain brain pattern variation across individuals.