Prof Julio Licinio

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Julio Licinio, MD, FRANZCP, is Deputy Director, Translational Medicine and Head, Mind and Brain Theme at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute and Strategic Professor of Psychiatry, Flinders University. He is also Research Professor at University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He was previously Director, John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU, and head of the Translational Medicine Department. Professor Licinio lived for 25 years in the USA, where he had training in endocrinology and psychiatry at University of Chicago, Albert Einstein and Cornell. Professor Licinio is an international leader in translational research in depression and obesity and conducted research for over 20 years at Yale, NIH, UCLA, University of Miami and at the ANU, with key leadership positions. He is also Chief Editor of three Nature Publishing Group journals, Molecular Psychiatry (Impact Factor: 14.897, number 1 worldwide), The Pharmacogenomics Journal (IF 5.1) and Translational Psychiatry. Professor Licinio's research spans the lab and clinic examining obesity, depression, and their interface.