Susumu Tonegawa, Ph.D.
Susumu Tonegawa, 1987 Nobel prize winner in Medicine, is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), director of the RIKEN-Picower-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. His expertise spans the fields of immunology and neuroscience. In the area of neuroscience, he has pioneered the use of genetically modified mice to understand the molecular basis of learning and memory. Recent advances in his laboratory include the development of a variety of animal models to study cognitive and psychiatric diseases.

Jianzhu Chen, Ph.D.
Jianzhu Chen is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Chen's research focuses on the development and function of the immune system. This research led to development of technology for RNA interference of influenza virus infection. Dr. Chen received a Ph.D. degree from Stanford University and was an instructor at Harvard Medical School before joining the faculty at MIT. Dr. Chen is also an adjunct professor and co-director of the Center for Infection and Immunity, the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Maria Karayiorgou, M.D.
Maria Karayiorgou is a faculty member at The Rockefeller University where she serves as Associate Professor & Head of the Laboratory of Human Neurogenetics. Dr. Karayiorgou is also a member of the Starr Center for Human Genetics and a member of the Levy Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior. Dr. Karayiorgou received an M.D. from the National University of Greece and conducted her postdoctoral training at MIT. Dr. Karayiorgou has published extensively and received numerous honors and awards.

David J. Gerber, Ph.D.
David is Vice President of CNS Research and a founding scientist at Galenea. He has more than ten years of experience in CNS research primarily in the areas of psychiatric disease biology, molecular and behavioral neuroscience and mouse molecular genetics. Recently, his research has focused on the genetics of schizophrenia and particularly on the involvement of calcineurin dysfunction in schizophrenia pathogenesis. David received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from MIT in 1987 and a Ph.D. in biology from MIT in 1996. David pursued his postdoctoral research in Dr. Susumu Tonegawa’s laboratory at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT prior to joining Galenea in 2004.