Alexander Charney, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai with primary appointments in the Departments of Psychiatry and Genetics & Genomic Sciences, as well as secondary appointments in the Departments of Neuroscience and Neurosurgery. He completed his MD, PhD and psychiatry residency under the mentorship of Pamela Sklar, MD, PhD, and Eric Schadt, PhD, two of the world’s foremost experts on large-scale genomics and multiscale biology. He has been the lead data scientist on several genomic studies of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, including genome-wide association studies, copy number variant studies and rare sequencing variant studies. He is the primary investigator of the Living Brain Project, a multiscale, data-driven investigation of the human brain wherein a single living population is being studied using all of the tools available for human-subject neuroscience, including the tools of molecular and cellular neurobiology that to date have been applied primarily in the post-mortem setting. His primary goal as a physician-scientist is to translate genomic discoveries into new treatments and diagnostics for severe mental illness.
