Brain Research Foundation Appoints Matthew W. State to Scientific Review Committee

Feb. 23, 2012 - PRLog -- CHICAGO, IL – (February 23, 2012) The Brain Research Foundation (BRF) announced that Matthew W. State, M.D., Ph.D. is the newest member of the Foundation’s Scientific Review Committee (SRC). The SRC is comprised of highly regarded researchers from major universities across the country. It is the role of the Committee to evaluate the many grant applications received by the Foundation and recommend the projects that will receive valuable funding. “The Brain Research Foundation is thrilled to continue to strengthen and broaden our SRC with Dr. State,” commented Terre Constantine, Ph.D. BRF Executive Director. “We know that Dr. State’s scientific expertise will be a great asset in identifying important research potential through our grant review process.”  

Dr. State is the Donald J. Cohen Professor of Child Psychiatry, Psychiatry and Genetics at Yale University School of Medicine. He is a leading child psychiatrist whose research focuses on understanding the genetic mechanisms involved in childhood neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders. His lab concentrates on Tourette’s syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder, autism, childhood onset schizophrenia and structural brain disorders. Dr. State has a long-standing interest in the contribution of rare variation to these syndromes and focuses on gene discovery as an avenue to elaborate molecular mechanisms of disease.

Dr. State received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Stanford University and his Ph.D. in Genetics from Yale University.


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