Dr. Gandal is the William & Noreen Hetznecker Associate Professor in the Lifespan Brain Institute at Penn Med and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He received his BS in Engineering (biomedical computation) from Stanford University and his MD/PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, using electrophysiology to investigate neural circuit dysfunction in mouse models of neurodevelopmental disorders. He completed his residency training in Psychiatry and a post-doctoral fellowship in Neurogenetics at the UCLA-Semel Institute. Dr. Gandal directs a Developmental Neurogenomics research program which seeks to uncover the genetic contributions to risk and resilience for neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders as well as to translate genetic signals into tractable biological mechanisms.