Where does David Amaral work?

David Amaral is Director Of The Autism Center Of Excellence At UC Davis at AIF.

Where did David Amaral go to school?

David Amaral studied at Washington University in St. Louis (Postdoc, Neuroscience); University of Rochester (Ph.D., Neuroscience and Psychology); Northwestern University (BA, Psychology).

David Amaral

Investor

Director Of The Autism Center Of Excellence At UC Davis at AIF

Davis, California, United States

About

David Amaral is a Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at UC Davis Health System who joined the university in 1995 following postdoctoral work at Washington University and earlier research at the Salk Institute. He holds a joint PhD in Psychology and Neurobiology from the University of Rochester and has spent over 25 years researching autism spectrum disorder through postmortem brain studies, magnetic resonance imaging, and nonhuman primate models. Amaral directs the MIND Institute, the Autism Phenome Project, and an NIH-funded Autism Center of Excellence; he previously served as President of the International Society for Autism Research and Editor-in-Chief of Autism Research, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.

Experience

UC Davis Health SystemProfessorcurrent1995 — present
The Salk Institute for Biological StudiesAssociate Professor1981 — 1993La Jolla, California, USA

Skills & more

Neuroscience21Developmental Disabilities2Psychology11Research11Neuroimaging15Cognitive Neuroscience2Higher Education3Molecular Biology12Science17Lifesciences1Psychopharmacology5Grant Writing5

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Cell CultureGeneticsStatisticsProgram DevelopmentTranslational ResearchClinical ResearchAutism Spectrum DisordersTeachingMicroscopyAutism Research

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Colleagues at AIF

Alison Singer

Co-Founder & President, Autism Science Foundation at AIF

Amanda Lukof

Special Needs Advocate at AIF

Arun Gupta

Founder & CEO, Quartet, Accretive, The World Bank, McKinsey at AIF

Ashok Srinivasan

Chief Science Advisor at AIF

Bob Nelsen

Co-Founder & Managing Director, ARCH Venture Partners at AIF

Brian Jacobs

Venture Capitalist Emergence, Moai Capital at AIF

Brian O'Callaghan

Co-Founder at AIF

Christopher Male

Co-Founder & Managing Partner at AIF

Frequently asked questions

Who is David Amaral?: David Amaral is a Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at UC Davis Health System who joined the university in 1995 following postdoctoral work at Washington University and earlier research at the Salk Institute. He holds a joint PhD in Psychology and Neurobiology from the University of Rochester and has spent over 25 years researching autism spectrum disorder through postmortem brain studies, magnetic resonance imaging, and nonhuman primate models. Amaral directs the MIND Institute, the Autism Phenome Project, and an NIH-funded Autism Center of Excellence; he previously served as President of the International Society for Autism Research and Editor-in-Chief of Autism Research, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.
Where does David Amaral work?: David Amaral is Director Of The Autism Center Of Excellence At UC Davis at AIF.
Where did David Amaral go to school?: David Amaral studied at Washington University in St. Louis (Postdoc, Neuroscience); University of Rochester (Ph.D., Neuroscience and Psychology); Northwestern University (BA, Psychology).

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