Stephen J. Glatt, Ph.D.
Young Investigator

Dr. Glatt received a B.S. in Biology and Psychology from Syracuse University in1996, a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Northeastern University in 2001, and two years of post-doctoral training in the NIMH-sponsored Training Program in Psychiatric Genetics at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health before joining the Center for Behavioral Genomics in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 2003. Dr. Glatt is presently an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at UCSD, and is now principally involved in teaching and researching on the genetic and environmental contributors to major mental illnesses including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and substance use disorders.

Dr. Glatt is currently involved in four NIH-sponsored research projects in psychiatric genetic epidemiology, including: 1) a genetic linkage and association study of heroin dependence in Yunnan Province, China; 2) a gene expression study designed to identify blood-based biomarkers for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder; 3) a data-analysis project to derive alternate phenotypes of substance use disorders that will be optimal for genetic studies; and 4) a genetic and genomic study of an animal model of bipolar disorder and a clinical sample of children with the illness. Through the support received from his NARSAD Young Investigator Award, Dr. Glatt will also be conducting the largest family-based association study of the prime schizophrenia candidate gene, DRD2, in Han Chinese schizophrenia families from Taiwan. Dr. Glatt is also pursuing numerous other collaborative research projects in psychiatric genetic epidemiology with investigators in the Department of Psychiatry, the larger UCSD campus, and other national and international Universities.

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