Jonathan Flint, MD, an expert in the genetics of behavior, has helped to shape the Depression Grand Challenge's large-scale research into the genetic basis of depression.
Joining UCLA from Oxford in 2016, Flint's research focuses on the determination of the genetic basis of anxiety and depression in animal models and in humans. His insistence on the importance of careful delineation of phenotypes in psychiatric genetics resulted in his successful genetic analysis of major depressive disorder and has opened new avenues to understanding the origins of the world’s leading cause of disability.
In tandem with his work specific to the Depression Grand Challenge, Flint holds the Billy and Audrey Wilder Endowed Chair in Psychiatry and Neuroscience and is a Professor in Residence of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a senior scientist at the Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics at the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.
