Laura Bevilacqua

Università di Pisa

Genomics of suicidal behavior

2010-2011: Fall and Spring

Alexander Bodini Research Fellow in Developmental and Adolescent Psychiatry

Laura Bevilacqua received her M.D. in 2005 from the University of Pisa, Italy, where she also trained as a psychiatrist. In the last two years she has been a Fogarty fellow in the Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA, where she focused on functional genomics and in particular on the role of serotonin and dopamine domain genes in impulsivity and dyscontrol towards the identification of functional alleles in addictions and related behaviors.