Wade Berrettini, MD, PhD

Dr. Berrettini is a Professor of Psychiatry, at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He earned his MD degree (1977) and PhD degree (Pharmacology, 1979) from Thomas Jefferson University. After Psychiatry residency training, he studied genetics of behavioral disorders at the National Institute of Mental Health for ten years. The author of more than 400 peer-reviewed publications, his research interests include genetics, pharmacogenetics and medical treatment of addictions, mood disorders, schizophrenia and epilepsy. The Berrettini lab most recently studied single cell transcriptomics in neurons and glia as potential causative factors in risk for addictions, psychotic illnesses and mood disorders. Another focus of the lab was a pharmacogenetic study of buprenorphine and methadone treatment for opioid use disorder.