Jay Nierenberg, M.D., Ph.D.

Initially a basic scientist, Dr. Nierenberg completed his undergraduate studies in Behavioral Biology at The Johns Hopkins University where he was a recipient of a Leidy Foundation Scholarship. There he conducted behavioral pharmacology research at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, after which he worked at the National Institutes of Health for two years doing research on kindling-related neural plasticity. He received M.D. and Ph.D. (in Neurobiology and Anatomy) degrees from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry under a National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Mental Health. After completing medical school, he attended the University of Pennsylvania for Psychiatry internship and completed Psychiatry Residency at Harvard Medical School, where he received a DuPont Warren Fellowship to carry out research in first episode schizophrenia. In 2001, Dr. Nierenberg came to the Nathan Kline Institute and to New York University, where he completed a Clinical Research Fellowship in Psychiatry. While at NKI, he has received multiple grant awards as Principal Investigator and has collaborated on numerous research projects focusing on substance abuse, disorders of the aging, and schizophrenia. He has spoken at multiple international scientific meetings, actively reviews manuscripts for numerous medical journals, and has reviewed grants for multiple NIH Special Emphasis study groups as well as the Alzheimer’s Association.