Work Email Address:
NFreimer@mednet.ucla.edu
Office Phone Number:
310-794-9571
Work Phone Number:
(800) 825-9989
310-794-9598
Laboratory Address:
Gonda 3554
695 Charles E. Young Drive South
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Work Address:
Gonda 3506A
695 Charles E. Young Drive South
Los Angeles, CA 90095
| Affiliations |
| Director, Biological Samples Processing Core (BSPC), UCLA Neuroscience Genomics Core, Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics |
| Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences |
| Member, Adult Psychiatry, Bioinformatics GPB Home Area, Brain Research Institute, CTSI, Genetics & Genomics GPB Home Area, Medical Informatics GPB Home Area, Neuroscience GPB Home Area |
Dr. Nelson Freimer is Director of UCLA's Depression Grand Challenge, a campuswide initiative that aims to cut the burden of depression in half by 2050. He is Maggie G. Gilbert Endowed Chair, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Human Genetics, and Director of the Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics. He also directs the UCLA Neuroscience Genomics Core, Dr. Freimer received an M.D. degree from the Ohio State University, and completed residency training in psychiatry (at UC San Francisco) and a postdoctoral fellowship in human genetics (at Columbia University). He joined the UCLA faculty in 2000 after 10 years on the faculty at UC San Francisco.
The research in Dr. Freimer's laboratory aims to use large scale genomics methods to identify the genetic basis of complex traits, particularly neurobehavioral disorders including bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression, and Tourette Syndrome. He has also conducted large-scale genomics studies of metabolic phenotypes and cardiovascular disorders. His research group has pioneered in whole genome sequencing studies of such disorders as well as the application of large-scale genomics to our understanding of non-human primates. A current focus of his work is the exploration of digital approaches to phenotyping human behavior.