Research Team

Current Members

Yasmin Hurd, PhD
Principal Investigator
Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Systems Therapeutics
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Director, MD PhD Program
E-mail: yasmin.hurd@mssm.edu

Gabor Egervari, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow
E-mail: gabor.egervari@mssm.edu

Michael Michaelides, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
E-mail: michael.michaelides@mssm.edu

Yanhua Ren, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
E-mail: yanhua.ren@mssm.edu 

Stephanie Sillivan, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
E-mail: stephanie.sillivan@mssm.edu

Henrietta Szutorisz, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
E-mail: henrietta.szutorisz@mssm.edu

Sarah Ann R. Anderson, BS
MD/PhD Student
E-mail: sarahann.anderson@mssm.edu

Michael Miller, BS
MD/PhD Student
E-mail: michael.l.miller@mssm.edu

Hilarie Tomasiewicz, BS
MD/PhD Student
E-mail: hilarie.tomasiewicz@mssm.edu

Benjamin Chadwick, BA
PhD Student
E-mail: benjamin.chadwick@mssm.edu

Jennifer DiNieri, BA
PhD Student
E-mail: jennifer.dinieri@mssm.edu

Claudia Morris, BS
PhD Student
E-mail: claudia.morris@mssm.edu

Georgia Yiannoulos, MS
Clinical Research Coordinator II
E-mail: georgia.yiannoulos@mssm.edu

Itse Begho, BS
Clinical Research Assistant
E-mail: itse.begho@mssm.edu

Nayana Patel, BS
Associate Researcher I
E-mail: nayana.patel@mssm.edu

James Sperry, BA
Associate Researcher I
E-mail: james.sperry@mssm.edu

Jenna Wellington, BA
Associate Researcher I
E-mail: jenna.wellington@mssm.edu

Former Members

Isabella Kanellopoulou
Clinical Assistant Professor

Michelle Jacobs
Postdoctoral Fellow

John Whittard
Postdoctoral Fellow

Didier Jutras-Aswad
Research Fellow

Petra Majdak
Graduate Student

Anna Okvist
Graduate Student

Daniel Izcovich
Summer Intern

Allison Shaber
Summer Intern