Pirooznia, Mehdi, M.D., Ph.D

Assistant Professor Main Office Address Meyer 4-119D The Johns Hopkins Hospital 600 North Wolfe St. Baltimore, MD 21287-5371 Phone: 410-955-2572 Fax: 410-502-0065 E-mail: mpirooz1@jhmi.edu

Education

Professional Interests

My research focus is on analysis and biological interpretation of high-throughput sequencing data and other high-dimensional biological datasets.  Specifically, I am interested in the genetics of mood disorders such as bipolar disorders and major depression.

Mood disorder analytical wiki site: http://psychiatry.igm.jhmi.edu/wiki/

Selected Publications

Zhang K, Pirooznia M, et al. Genomic signatures and gene networking: challenges and promises. BMC Genomics. 2011 Dec 23;12 Suppl 5:I1. PMID: 22369358

Pirooznia M, Wang T, Avramopoulos D, Valle D, Thomas G, Huganir RL, Goes FS, Potash JB and Zandi PP. SynaptomeDB: an ontology-based knowledgebase for synaptic genes, Bioinformatics 2012 : bts040v1-bts040.

Pirooznia M, Seifuddin F, Judy J, Mahon PB, Potash JB, Zandi PP; The Bipolar Genome Study (BiGS) Consortium;. Data mining approaches for genome-wide association of mood disorders. Psychiatr Genet. 2011 Nov 11. PubMed PMID: 22081063.

Belmonte Mahon P, Pirooznia M, Goes FS, et al. Genome-wide association analysis of age at onset and psychotic symptoms in bipolar disorder. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. 2011 Apr;156B(3):370-8. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.b.31172.