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 Biography   William Byerley, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry and Human Genetics University of California, San Francisco For more than 20 years, Dr. Byerley has been exploring the molecular genetics of neuropsychiatric disease, with emphasis on schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and drug-abuse disorders. His laboratory completed the first genome-wide linkage studies of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, which indicated that both illnesses were complex genetic diseases. He is a member of the Pritzker Neuropsychiatric Disorders Research Consortium, a multi-investigator group devoted to understanding the neurobiological basis of mood disorders and schizophrenia. Dr. Byerley conducts his research at UCSF’s Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, but he has a special interest in investigating psychiatric disease in isolated locales across the globe where populations tend to be more closely related genetically. He and his group have done gene-mapping studies of schizophrenia among remote populations in Palau, in Micronesia and in Costa Rica. A member of NARSAD’s Scientific Council since 2003, Dr. Byerley received a NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award in 1996. |
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