Nenad Sestan, MD, PhD, is the Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Neuroscience at Yale University. He also holds professorships in Comparative Medicine, Genetics, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, and is a member of Yale’s Wu Tsai Institute and Child Study Center. He received his M.D. from the University of Zagreb and his Ph.D. in Neurobiology from Yale University.

His laboratory bridges neuroscience, evolutionary biology, genomics, and medicine to understand how brain circuits are built, how they enable cognition, and how their disruption contributes to neuropsychiatric disorders. To tackle these questions, his group employs a multidisciplinary approach that integrates methods from neuroscience, developmental biology, stem cell biology, genome editing, genomics, and computational science.