Michael Gandal is the William & Noreen Hetznecker Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania and the Lifespan Brain Institute at Penn Med and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. As a psychiatrist, he specializes in the treatment of adolescents and adults with neurodevelopmental psychiatric conditions, including autism, ADHD and schizophrenia.

Gandal directs a developmental neurogenomics research laboratory which leverages large-scale genetic and genomic approaches in the human brain to identify new biomarkers and biological mechanisms contributing to these disorders. ”

Gandal received his B.S. in engineering (biomedical computation) from Stanford University and his M.D./Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed residency training in psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a postdoctoral fellowship in neurogenetics in the laboratory of Daniel Geschwind, characterizing the genetic contributions to shared gene expression alterations in the human brain across several major psychiatric disorders.