Nikolaos P. Daskalakis, MD, PhD, is the Director of the Neurogenomics and Translational Bioinformatics Laboratory at McLean Hospital and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is also an affiliate member of the Broad Institute, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and National Center for PTSD. Dr. Daskalakis received his MD from University of Athens, his PhD in neuropsychopharmacology from Leiden University, and completed postdoctoral research fellowships in clinical neuroendocrinology at Leiden University and in systems biology at Icahn School of Medicine.
Dr. Daskalakis focuses on the interaction between stress and the brain, conducting translational studies and following an integrative systems biology approach. His lab uses transcriptomic and epigenomic profiling of brain and blood samples to identify gene networks associated with vulnerability and resilience to PTSD. Dr. Daskalakis leads the Systems Biology working group of Psychiatric Genomics Consortium for PTSD. He is an editor for Brain Sciences and Frontiers (in Behavioral Neuroscience, Endocrinology, Neuroscience and Psychiatry).