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Biography of Professor Bernard Lerer, MD

Professor Bernard Lerer is Director of the Biological Psychiatry Laboratory at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel since 1990. He was recently chosen to lead a National Knowledge Center for Research on Brain Disorders established at Hadassah Medical Center by the Israel Ministry of Science. Professor Lerer was educated at the University of Cape Town, Hadassah and Herzog Hospitals in Jerusalem, and Lafayette Clinic in Detroit. His main research interests are the molecular genetic basis of major psychiatric disorders, particularly schizophrenia, psychopharmacogenetics, and the neurochemical mechanisms of action of antidepressants, mood stabilizers, and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). He served as Director of the National Institute for Psychobiology in Israel from 1994–2002, Vice President of the CINP (1996–2000), and Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology (1998–2008). Professor Lerer was a founder and past-President of the Israel Society for Biological Psychiatry. He has received the A.E. Bennet Award of the US Society for Biological Psychiatry and the Mentorship Award of the Israel Society for Biological Psychiatry and has been a Fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology since 1996. He has extensive international research collaborations and has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Cape Town, Copenhagen, Hiroshima, and Miami. He has received research support from NIH, the European Union, the Israel Science Foundation and the Israel Ministries of Health, Science and Economics. Prof. Lerer has published over 340 papers in peer reviewed journals as well as book chapters and four books. He is married to Ziona Lerer, and has 3 children and 4 grandchildren.