Dr. Avramopoulos graduated from the Medical School of the University of Athens in 1990. Having developed a strong interest in Medical Genetics he immediately started a postdoctoral fellowship in Johns Hopkins University in Dr. Stylianos Antonarakis’ laboratory working on linkage mapping and the segregation of chromosomes in trisomy 21. In 1993 he returned to Greece where he later received a Ph.D. in human genetics from the University of Crete. After completing an obligatory military service and a year of required medical service, he became strongly interested and involved in psychiatric genetics, working on bipolar disorder as a research associate in the genetics laboratory of the Eginition University Hospital, and later on Schizophrenia in the laboratory of the University Mental Health Research Institute in Athens. In 2001 he returned to the U.S. and to the Johns Hopkins University to devote his career to psychiatric genetics research. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and an affiliate member of the McKusick-Nathans Institute for Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins. He has organized and is directing a Psychiatric Genetics Seminar Series intended to stimulate the interest in psychiatric genetics and to enhance communication between psychiatrists and geneticists. His laboratory is focused on the genetics of Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder and Alzheimer’s disease.

 

 

Other web sites referring to Dr. Avramopoulos:   Dept. of Psychiatry ,   IGM pre-doctoral training program