Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, M.D.

Ruane Professor for the Implementation of Science for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Columbia University Medical Center
Director, Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, New York-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute

SFARI Investigator, SPARK Scientific Advisory Board Website

Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who uses molecular and translational neuroscience research tools to pursue new treatments for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and pediatric obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). His molecular neuroscience laboratory at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute focuses on genetic mouse models with changes in social or repetitive behavior. His clinical/translational research program at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Center for Autism and the Developing Brain studies potential treatments for ASD and related genetic syndromes.

Veenstra-VanderWeele serves as an associate editor of Autism Research, the Journal of the International Society for Autism Research. He also co-chairs the Autism and Intellectual Disability Committee of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. His work has garnered multiple awards, including the Blanche Ittelson Award for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry from the American Psychiatric Association.

Funded Projects

Impact of maternal serotonin levels on neurodevelopment

Awarded: 2019
Award Type: Pilot

Autophagy pathway alterations in lymphocytes: Potential biomarkers for autism?

Awarded: 2016
Award Type: Pilot

SFARI Funded Publications

Psychotic symptoms in 16p11.2 copy-number variant carriers. Jutla A., Turner J.B., Green Snyder L., Chung W., Veenstra-VanderWeele J.

Autism spectrum disorder. Lord C., Brugha T.S., Charman T., Cusack J., Dumas G., Frazier T., Jones E., Jones R., Pickles A., State M., Taylor J.L., Veenstra-VanderWeele J.

Whole blood serotonin levels and platelet 5-HT_2a binding in autism spectrum disorder. Aaron E., Montgomery A., Ren X., Guter S., Anderson G., Carneiro A.M.D., Jacob S., Mosconi M., Pandey G.N., Cook E. H., Veenstra-VanderWeele J.