Julio Licinio Deputy Director, Translational Medicine and Head

julio licinio,MD, FRANZCP, is Deputy Director, Translational Medicine and Head, Mind andBrain Theme at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute andStrategic Professor of Psychiatry, Flinders University.He is also Research Professor at University of Southern California, LosAngeles.

He was previously Director, John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU,and head of the Translational Medicine Department. ProfessorLicinio lived for 25 years in the USA, wherehe had training in endocrinology and psychiatry atUniversity of Chicago, Albert Einstein and Cornell.

Professor Licinio is aninternational leader in translational research in depression and obesity and conducted research for over 20 years at Yale, NIH, UCLA, University ofMiami and at the ANU, with key leadership positions. He is also Chief Editor ofthree Nature Publishing Group journals, Molecular Psychiatry.