Panos Roussos M.D. Ph.D.

Scientific Council Member (Joined 2025)
2013 Young Investigator Grant
Panos Roussos M.D. Ph.D.
Professor at the Department of Genetics and Genomics Sciences and the Department of Psychiatry
Director of the Pamela Sklar Division of Psychiatric Genomics
Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology
Friedman Brain Institute
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Panos Roussos is a Professor of Psychiatry and Genetics and Genomic Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Director of the Pamela Sklar Division of Psychiatric Genomics. He is a member of Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology and Friedman Brain Institute. He is also a VA/MIRECC Research Physician at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center. He received his medical and doctorate degrees from the University of Crete in Greece and he completed his residency in Psychiatry (research track) at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai followed by a MIRECC research fellowship in schizophrenia. His early research focused on the genetic exploration of intermediate cognitive phenotypes, including the prepulse inhibition of the startle reflex in human subjects and restoration of deficits using a pharmacogenomic approach. During his residency in psychiatry (Physician-Scientist Research Track) at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, he worked on human postmortem studies by integrating genomics with gene expression and gene network approaches. His research focuses on the integration of high-dimensional data, such as genomic, epigenomic, and transcriptomic, using advanced biostatistical methods in order to identify some of the mechanisms through which risk genetic variants increase the risk for neuropsychiatric diseases.
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