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Collaborating Molecular Biologists:

David Valle, M.D., was awarded a NARSAD Distinguished Investigator award for 2007. NARSAD (the Mental Health Research Association) funds these awards to allow proven investigators to test exciting ideas for innovative studies. Dr. Valle, along with Dimitrios Avramopoulous, M.D., Ph.D., are studying the chromosome 10 candidate region for schizophrenia using DNAs from our Ashkenazi families.  Dr. Valle and Dr. Avramopoulous are, respectively,director and associate professor of the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine here at Johns Hopkins.

Stephen Warren, Ph.D., Chairman, and Jennifer Mulle, Ph.D. (postdoctoral fellow) of the Department of Human Genetics at Emory University, received 5-year funding through a federal grant from NIH to study "copy number variation" (CNV) (gains and losses of segments of DNA) using DNA's from our volunteer Ashkenazi Jewish families and from our Ashkenazi Jewish Control Repository. Powerful new technologies have become available to look at CNVs throughout the human genome and assess their impact on gene expression and function.

Joseph Cubells, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of Human Genetics and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University School of Medicine, continues his studies of a candidate gene for schizophrenia (gene name is DBH), with a federal grant from NIH. These studies use highly sensitive assays for DBH activity in plasma to identify novel target chromosomal regions contributing to DBH activity. These analyses use DNAs and blood samples from our non-Ashkenazi European Caucasian families, generally collected as part of the Maryland Epidemiology Sample. 

Collaborating Psychiatrists

Gerald Nestadt, M.D. , professor, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Collaborating Statisticians