Vishwajit Nimgaonkar, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Nimgaonkar's research focus is the genetic epidemiology of psychiatric illness, including bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders. His current projects include large-scale, family studies in the U.S. and India on schizophrenia genetics, and a study of rates of consanguinity among parents of patients with schizophrenia in Egypt.

Positions

• Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry and Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh
• Director, Program for Genetics and Psychoses

Education

• M.D., 1981, University of Madras Ph.D., 1985, Oxford University

Relevant Publications

• Thelma BK, Tiwari AK, Deshpande SN, Lerer B, Nimgaonkar VL. Genetic susceptibility to Tardive Dyskinesia in chronic schizophrenia subjects: Role of oxidative stress pathway genes. Schizophr Res. 2007;92:278-279.
• Levitt P, Ebert P, Mirnics K, Nimgaonkar VL, Lewis DA. Making the case for a candidate vulnerability gene in schizophrenia: Convergent evidence for regulator of g-protein signaling 4 (RGS4). Biol Psychiatr. 2006;60:534-537.
• Shirts BH, Wood J, Yolken RH, Nimgaonkar VL. Association study of IL10, IL1β, and IL1RN and schizophrenia using tag SNPs from a comprehensive database: IL1β. Schizophr Res. 2006;88:235—244.
• Nimgaonkar VL, Chowdari KV, Zhang F, Butler AL, Wood J, Gottesman II. TDT analysis of candidate gene polymorphisms for schizophrenia. Am J Hum Genet. 2000;67(Supp 2):356. Nimgaonkar VL, Fujiwara TM, Dutta M, Wood J, Gentry K, Maendel S, et al. Low prevalence of psychoses among the Hutterites, an isolated religious community. Am J Psychiatry. 2000;157:1065-1070.

Contributed Content

• A Two-Way Process
• Changing Course
• Collaborating with Developing Countries
• Collecting DNA in Different Countries
• Consent in India and Egypt
• International Bipolar Research
• No Immediate Answers
• The D43 Program
• Training International Staff
• Work Comes Second