WILLSEY LAB

In an effort to narrow the gap, the Willsey Lab's research focuses not only on generating insights from the realms of gene discovery and system biology but also, critically, building from these insights to elucidate the biological foundations of psychiatric disorders... The Willsey Lab believes these projects can serve as a paradigm for understanding any complex genetic disorder. Though each project differs in specifics, they are unified by a commitment to high-throughput design, hypothesis-naïve approaches, and biological validation. Broadly speaking, this is illustrative of the mission of the Willsey Lab: to investigate the foundational biology of psychiatric disorders, and eventually neurodegenerative disorders, by utilizing high throughput, cutting edge techniques, while maintaining a high level of scientific rigor, in order to bridge the crucial gap in knowledge between the genome and the clinic. Ultimately, we seek to both advance the scientific and medical communities'..