Dr. Wright is an assistant professor of neuroscience and psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College where he focuses on resolving the circuits that underlie mood disorders. He received his PhD from MIT where he studied with George Church, a pioneer in developing molecular tools for understanding the genetic makeup of tissues. After completing medical school at Harvard University, Dr. Wright completed his residency in Psychiatry at Yale and a Child and Adolescent Fellowship at the Weill Cornell/Columbia combined program. He then completed postdoctoral studies at Stanford with Karl Deisseroth, where he developed molecular tools for determining molecular information in intact cleared tissue and circuit tools to probe the cells that drive mood behavior. He combines these molecular and circuit level tools to determine the cell-types that drive core aspects of mood and anxiety behaviors.
