Dr. Bonnie Firestein is Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University. She is also Director of the Graduate Program in Cell and Developmental Biology and a member of the Human Genetics Institute of New Jersey and Cancer Institute of New Jersey. Dr. Firestein has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and the American Society for the Advancement of Science. Her laboratory has made great strides in studying the role of changes to protein levels in patients with schizophrenia. She identified sex-dependent effects of antipsychotic treatments on brain proteins and how genes linked to schizophrenia shape brain formation during development. Her work on inducible pluripotent stem cell-derived human neurons serves a platform for understanding how genetics shape response to treatment.
