Arturas Petronis#
| Membership Number: | 5431 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | LITHUANIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.camh.ca/en/science-and-research/science-and-research-staff-directory/arturaspetronis |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - present Head and Professor, Laboratory for Epigenetic Research, Life Sciences Centre, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
- 2008 - present Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto
- 2002 - present Senior Scientist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto
- 2002 - present Head, The Krembil Family Epigenetics Laboratory, CAMH, Toronto
- 2000 - present Member, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto
- 2003 - present Member, Graduate School, Department of Pharmacology, University of Toronto
- 2008 - 2012 Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton
- 2002 - 2008 Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
- 2002 - 2006 Research Scientist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto
- 1997 - 2002 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Fields of Scholarship
- Complex disease
- Schizophrenia
- Bipolar disorder
- Brain
- Etiopathogenesis
- Epigenetics/epigenomics
- DNA modification
- Time
- Circadian
- Chronobiology
Honours and Awards
- 2018 The Global Lithuania Leaders award, Vilnius, Lithuania
- 2010 - 2020 The Tapscott Chair for Schizophrenia Studies, University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada
- 2013 The John Dewan Prize, Ontario Mental Health Foundation, Toronto, Canada
- 2009 - 2012 Senior Research Fellow, Ontario Mental Health Foundation (second award), Toronto, Canada
- 2006 - 2009 Senior Research Fellow, Ontario Mental Health Foundation (first award), Toronto, Canada
- 2005 - 2007 NARSAD Independent Investigator Award, New York, USA
- 2003 - 2006 Intermediate Research Fellow, Ontario Mental Health Foundation, (second award), Toronto, Canada
- 2003 - 2005 Lieber Investigator (NARSAD), New York, USA
- 2001 - 2003 NARSAD Young Investigator Award, New York, USA
- 2001 - 2003 Intermediate Research Fellow, Ontario Mental Health Foundation,(first award), Toronto, Canada
- 1999 Award of the DNA Methylation Society, FASEB Conference on Biological Methylation, Vermont, USA.
- 1999 - 2001 New Investigator Award, Ontario Mental Health Foundation, Toronto, Canada
