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Laboratory of Sex-Informed Translational Neuroscience

Principal Investigator

Primavera ‘Vera’ Spagnolo, MD, PhD

Director, Laboratory of Sex-Informed Translational Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry
Associate Director, Connors Center for Women’s Health
Scientific Director, First.In.Women Precision Medicine Platform
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Current Lab Members

Doruntina Fida, MPH
Senior Research Coordinator

Aleta Wiley, MPH, MSc
Director, Research Program Management

Irene Gonsalvez, MD
Associate Psychiatrist

Therese Rajasekera, PhD
Research Fellow

Anaya Zachery​
Intern

Maurilio Menduni De Rossi
Visiting Medical Student

Chiara Montemitro MD PhD
Psychiatrist & Visiting Scientist

Local Collaborators

  • Hadine Joffe, MD, MSc – Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  • Staci Gruber, PhD – McLean Hospital
  • Antonia V. Seligowski, PhD – Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Shadab A. Rahman, PhD – Brigham and Women’s Hospital

National & International Collaborators

  • Graziano Pinna, PhD – University of Illinois College of Medicine
  • Cecilia J. Hillard, PhD – Medical College of Wisconsin
  • Resat Cinar, PhD, MBA – National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

Lab Alumni

Julie Wilson, BA
Research Coordinator

Aamani Chava, MD
Addiction Medicine Fellow

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