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Rachel Asher, M.D., received her medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine and graduated from Brigham and Women’s Hospital Psychiatry Residency Program. As Sklar Fellow, she is working with Steve Hyman, Ben Neale, Kerry Ressler, Stanley Center scientists, and the Ó³»­´«Ã½ Ethics Committee to develop a research initiative (Neurobridge) to facilitate interdisciplinary integration across the neuroscience-neuroethics-society interface for the purposes of improving translation, impact, and alignment in neuroscience. By utilizing reflexive metascience, Rachel aims to collaboratively integrate qualitative, quantitative, and artistic data on diverse lived experiences of academic and non-academic community members to design solutions for psychological, sociocultural, political, and epistemic dynamics which may pose barriers to the development of healthier, more translationally effective research ecosystems.

Evan Giangrande, Ph.D., received his doctorate in clinical psychology with a concentration in quantitative psychology from the University of Virginia, working on longitudinal dynamics of gene-environment interplay across cognitive development. He then pursued a doctoral internship in clinical psychology in adult psychopathology at McLean Hospital. As a Sklar Fellow, he is working with Ben Neale and Jordan Smoller, leveraging genomics and longitudinal electronic health record data to examine the etiology, course, and outcomes of psychotic disorders. In this work, he has applied machine learning algorithms to identify psychotic disorder subtypes characterized by heterogeneous trajectories of illness course, and examined genetic influences on variation in clinically relevant schizophrenia outcomes including global functioning and hospitalization burden. 

Yong Kim, M.D., Ph.D., earned his medical degree and doctoral degree in genetics and epigenetics from the University of Pennsylvania, where he investigated 3D genome organization in circadian biology. Following his psychiatry residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, he joined McLean Hospital as an instructor in psychiatry, where he currently treats patients in its Psychosis Disorders Inpatient Units. As a Sklar Fellow, he is continuing his research with Steve McCarroll, focusing on elucidating the molecular mechanisms orchestrating the synaptic neuron-astrocyte program (SNAP) that underlies genetic risk for schizophrenia.