Mark Shen, Ph.D., is a translational neuroscientist whose research integrates neuroimaging, genetics, and clinical assessment in young children to study the early onset of neurodevelopmental disorders. He is an assistant professor in the UNC School of Medicine, with dual appointments … Read more
Kara Hume, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the UNC School of Education and a Faculty Fellow at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute. She is also the director of the National Clearinghouse on Autism Evidence and Preactice. Her … Read more
Stephanie Engel, Ph.D., is an Associate Department Chair and Professor of Epidemiology in the Gillings School of Global Public Health. Her research considers the impact of environmental exposures and innate susceptibility factors on adverse pregnancy outcomes and neurodevelopmental impairment in … Read more
Patricia Maness, Ph.D., is a Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics in the UNC School of Medicine. Dr. Maness is a member of the UNC Neuroscience Center, Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, and UNC Curriculum in Neurobiology Dr. Maness research focuses on … Read more
Kathleen Thomas, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy in the Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy. She is the former Associate Director of the NRSA training program in health services research for pre- and … Read more
Sheryl Moy, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry in the UNC School of Medicine. Her research addresses genetic factors in susceptibility to neurodevelopmental disorders, and preclinical efficacy testing with novel therapeutic agents, using mouse models for psychiatric and neurological conditions. Current … Read more
Martin Styner, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Computer Science. Dr. Styner has an extensive background in diffusion tensor imaging, anatomical structure and tissue segmentation, structural brain morphometry, modeling, deformable registration, atlas building. He has also strong experience … Read more
Hyejung Won, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Genetics and the UNC Neuroscience Center. Dr. Won completed her PhD in Dr. Eunjoon Kim’s lab at KAIST, where she investigated the underlying mechanism of neurodevelopmental disorders using genetically … Read more
Joseph Piven, M.D., is the Thomas E. Castelloe Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology; Director, Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities; Co-Director, UNC NIH T32 Post Doctoral Research Training Program; Director, NICHD Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center; Director, North … Read more
Jason Stein, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Genetics in the UNC Neuroscience Center. Dr. Steins lab explores how variations in the genome change the structure and development of the brain, and in doing so, create risk for neuropsychiatric illness. … Read more