julio licinio,MD, FRANZCP, is Deputy Director, Translational Medicine and Head, Mind andBrain Theme at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute andStrategic Professor of Psychiatry, Flinders University.He is also Research Professor at University of Southern California, LosAngeles.

1. Julio Licinio Deputy Director, Translational
Medicine and Head
julio licinio,MD, FRANZCP, is Deputy Director, Translational Medicine and Head, Mind andBrain
Theme at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute andStrategic Professor of
Psychiatry, Flinders University.He is also Research Professor at University of Southern California,
LosAngeles.

2. He was previouslyDirector, John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU,and head
of the Translational Medicine Department. ProfessorLicinio livedfor 25 years in the
USA, wherehe had training inendocrinologyand psychiatry atUniversity of Chicago,
Albert Einstein and Cornell.
Professor Licinio is aninternational leader in translational research in depression and obesity and
conducted research for over 20 years at Yale, NIH, UCLA, University ofMiami and at the ANU,
with key leadership positions. He is also Chief Editor ofthree Nature Publishing Group journals,
Molecular Psychiatry.