| Husseini K. Manji, M.D.,
Husseini K. Manji, M.D. is the Chief of the Laboratory of Molecular Pathophysiology, National Institute of Mental Health and the Director of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program. Dr. Manji received his B.S. (Biochemistry) and M.D. from the University of British Columbia. Following psychiatry residency training, he completed fellowship training in psychopharmacology at the NIMH and undertook extensive additional training in Cellular and Molecular Biology at the NIDDK. He is actively involved in research investigating the molecular and cellular mechanisms of action of mood-stabilizing agents. He has helped to establish a new Neuropsychiatric Research Unit which conducts an integrated series of clinical and preclinical studies which focus on signal transduction pathways in mood disorders. He has received ongoing research funding from the NIH, Private Foundations, and the pharmaceutical industry for his work on signaling pathways, gene expression and new medication development for mood disorders. Dr. Manji is a previous recipient of the A. E. Bennett Award for Neuropsychiatric Research, the 1999 Ziskind-Somerfeld Award for Neuropsychiatric Research, the 1999 NARSAD Mood Disorders Prize (Nola Maddox Falcone Prize), the NIMH award for excellence in clinical care and research, the NARSAD Independent Investigator Award, the Canadian Association of Professors in Psychiatry Award, and a Visiting Professor lectureship to the Salpetreire Hospital, Paris. He has published extensively on the molecular and cellular mechanisms of action of mood-stabilizing agents, and the neurobiology of bipolar disorder. He is a member of both the Canadian College of Neuropsychopharmacology and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP), and is a member of the Ethics Committee of the ACNP. He is currently sits on the NARSAD Scientific Advisory Board, the NIMH Bipolar Initiative Scientific Advisory Board, has served the NIH over the years as a reviewer on Study Sections, Review Committees, and advisory boards, and has also served as a member of the National Board of Medical Examiners Behavioral Science Test Committee, and the USMLE Step 1 Test Material Development Committee for Behavioral Science. Dr. Manji is currently editor of the Neuroscience Update Section of the journal Biological Psychiatry, associate editor of the journal Bipolar Disorders, and sits on the Editorial Board of the official journals of both the ACNP and the CINP. |
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