Diego A. Pizzagalli, PhD

Diego A. Pizzagalli, PhD, serves as founding director of the Center for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Research; the director of the McLean Imaging Center; and the director of research for the Division of Depression and Anxiety at McLean Hospital. He is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and the center director for Silvio O. Conte Center for Basic Translational Mental Health Research. In 2024, he will become the founding director of the Noel Drury, MD Institute for Translational Depression Discoveries at the University of California, Irvine, and a visiting professor at Oxford University. His research aims improve understanding of the psychological, environmental, and neurobiological factors associated with mood disorders, particularly major depression. Dr. Pizzagalli has published over 360 papers and chapters and serves on the editorial boards of 13 journals.