Rachel Bandler, MD, PhD, a third-year resident in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, has been selected to receive the 2024 National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Outstanding Resident Award.
The award, introduced more than 30 years ago, recognizes residents with outstanding research and academic potential.
Bandler has been invited to participate in the awards program, to be held October 28-29, 2024, at the National Institute of Health campus in Bethesda, MD. The program will include talks from NIMH investigators and interactive meetings with NIMH leadership, extramural staff, and current clinical fellows. Honorees will learn about research training opportunities at NIMH and will have an opportunity to present their research.
Bandler is a resident in the Yale Department of Psychiatry’s Neuroscience Research Training Program. In the laboratory of Dr. Nenad Sestan, she is utilizing single-nucleus RNA sequencing and single nucleus transposase accessible chromatin sequencing to create a taxonomy of molecularly defined cell types in the developing human, rhesus macaque, and common marmoset brain across development. She is particularly interested in disorders with a developmental origin, including autism and schizophrenia.