Gelernter Lab
Principal Investigator: Joel Gelernter
Institution: Yale University (New Haven, CT)
Primary Subfield: Neuroscience
Recruitment Status: ✅ Hiring Postdocs
Research Focus
Project Summary Methamphetamine use disorder (MUD) is a hugely destructive public health problem that is surging worldwide, including in many parts of the US and Asia. Thailand is an optimal site for studying the genetics of MUD, owing to lower genetic and environmental heterogeneity than in the US, and lower research costs, in the greater context of a devastating and widespread Thai epidemic of MUD, The Principal Investigators have formed the international relationships and established the logistical infrastructures necessary for human genetic studies of drug use disorders, including MUD, in Thailand, as shown during the prior iteration of this project; we collected >4000 MUD-informative subjects (cases and exposed controls), twice the promised sample. Leveraging our established and effective collaborations (Thanyarak Institute and Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok; Suan Prung Hospital in Chiang Mai), our successful prior work supports the feasibility of this project. We will collect and characterize a biobank sample for studies of substance use disorders (SUDs), especially MUD, as well as other psychiatric disorders and behaviors. 4800 subjects will be recruited in Bangkok (pri…
Active NIH Awards
- 5R01DA037974-09: Methamphetamine and Other Substance Use Disorder Genetics in Thailand (2026)
- 5R01MH133728-03: Expanding Genetic Understanding of Depression, Anxiety, and their Treatments (2026)
- 3R01DA037974-09S1: Methamphetamine and Other Substance Use Disorder Genetics in Thailand (2026)
- 5R01MH133728-02: Expanding Genetic Understanding of Depression, Anxiety, and their Treatments (2025)
- 5R01DA037974-08: Methamphetamine and Other Substance Use Disorder Genetics in Thailand (2025)
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