Principal Investigator
Matthew StateOberndorf Family Distinguished Professor
Chair, Department of Psychiatry Director, Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute and Hospital |
Education PhD, Genetics, Yale University MD, Stanford University Biography Matthew State MD PhD is a child psychiatrist and human geneticist studying pediatric neuropsychiatric syndromes, including autism spectrum disorder, Tourette disorder, and childhood-onset schizophrenia. His lab focuses on gene discovery as a launching point for efforts to illuminate the biology of these conditions and to develop novel and more effective therapies. Dr. State received his undergraduate and medical degrees at Stanford University, completed his residency in psychiatry and fellowship in child psychiatry at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, and earned a PhD in genetics from Yale University. He was on the faculty at Yale from 2001 to 2013, where he was the Donald J Cohen Professor of Child Psychiatry, Psychiatry, and Genetics and the Co-founder and Co-director of the Yale Program on Neurogenetics. Dr. State is currently the Oberndorf Family Distinguished Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at UCSF and Director of the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute and Hospital. He plays a leadership role in a number of national and international collaborative genomics studies of autism and Tourette disorder, including the Simons Simplex Collection Genomics Consortium, and the NIMH-funded Autism Sequencing Consortium and Tourette International Collaboration (TIC) on Genetics. Dr. State has been the recipient of multiple honors and awards, most recently the Ruane Prize for Child Psychiatric Research, election to the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Medicine's Sarnat Prize for Mental Health Research, and the Yale Wilbur Cross Medal for Alumni Achievement. Dr. State's UCSF Profile. |
