Stanley Center Collaborators

The broad scope and objectives of the Stanley Center would be impossible without the active, engaged involvement of many investigators. It is also almost equally impossible to list all these people. But here is our attempt. If you find your name is missing, please contact us to let us know—any omission is solely due to the challenge of keeping this webpage updated!

Departments/ Groups at Massachusetts General Hospital

Psychiatry Department
Neurology Department
Center for Human Genetic Research
Bipolar Clinic
Schizophrenia Clinic
Pediatric Clinic ‘LEAP’
Martinos Imaging Center

• Jacob Hooker
• Bruce Rosen
• Philip Liu
• Christine Liu

Investigators at MIT and The Whitehead Institute

Ann Graybiel
Elly Nedivi
Weifeng Xu
Hazel Sive

Investigators at Harvard Medical School

Mike Greenberg
Lew Cantley

Investigators at McLean Hospital

Bruce Cohen
Rakesh Karmacharya
Deborah Levy
Dost Onger
Uwe Rudolph

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Stanley Center for Psychiatric Genomics)

Richard McCombie
Pavel Osten
Bo Li

Emerging Genes/ Functional Biology

Mary Packard (U Mass Med School)
Diane Lipscombe (Brown Univ)
Phil Tsichlis (Tufts Medical School)
Randall Moon (Univ of Washington, HHMI)

Animal Models

Michela Gallagher (Johns Hopkins University)
Eric Nestler (Mt. Sinai School of Medicine)

Genetics Collaborators

The International Schizophrenia Genetics Consortium (ISC)

The ISC was established to promote rapid progress towards the identification of genetic causes underlying schizophrenia.

Hugh Gurling and Andrew McQuillin of University College London
Michael Owen and Michael O'Donovan of Cardiff University
Michael Gill and Aiden Corvin of the University of Dublin, Trinity College
Douglas Blackwood, David Porteous, and Walter Muir of the University of Edinburgh
Michele and Carlos Pato of the University of Southern California
David St. Clair of the University of Aberdeen
Patrick Sullivan of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Christina Hultman and Paul Lichtenstein of the Karolinksa Institute

The Swedish Schizophrenia Collection

A collaborative effort to address the urgent need for additional sample collection for schizophrenia to confirm genetic findings. Funded by NIMH and Stanley Medical Research Institute.

Christina Hultman and Paul Lichtenstein of the Karolinksa Institute
Patrick Sullivan of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

The International Consortium for the Collection of Bipolar Disorder Patients (ICCBD)

A collaborative effort formed in spring ’08 to address the urgent need for additional sample collection for bipolar disorder to confirm genetic findings. Goal is collection of 10,000 additional cases and 10,000 controls over roughly a two-year period. Funding currently from Stanley Medical Research Institute.

Nick Craddock of Cardiff University
Mikael Landen, Niklas Langstrom, and Christina Hultman of the Karolinska Institute
Jorden Smoller, Roy Perlis, and Pamela Sklar of Massachusetts General Hospital
Michele and Carlos Pato of the University of Southern California

Clinical Genetics and Pharmacogenomics of Bipolar Disorder

Jordan Smoller and Roy Perlis of Massachusetts General Hospital
Dost Ungur, and Bruce Cohen of McLean Hospital

The Psychiatric Genetics Consortium (PGC)

A large collaborative project to analyze genome-wide association data for five central psychiatric disorders — autism (AUT), attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), bipolar disorder (BIP), major depressive disorder (MDD), and schizophrenia (SCZ).

International Patient Sample Collections

Cardiff University (Nick Craddock, Michael O’Donovan, Michael Owen)
Karolinska Institute (Christina Hultman, Niklas Langstrom, Paul Lichtenstein)
University College London (Hugh Gurling, Andrew McQuillin)
University of Edinburgh (Douglas Blackwood, David Porteous)
University of North Carolina (Patrick Sullivan)
University of Southern California (Carlos and Michelle Pato)