Liberzon Lab (Houston)

About

Israel Liberzon, MD, is a Professor of Psychiatry and Department Head, Department of Psychiatry, Texas A&M University Health Systems. In 1992, he established the PTSD program at the Ann Arbor VAMC and University of Michigan’s Department of Psychiatry, a program that has grown and and had established itself at the forefront of biological research of PTSD worldwide. In Michigan he lead Trauma, Stress, and Anxiety Research Group (TSARG), the Psychiatric Affective Neuroimaging Laboratory, the VA fMRI research facility, the Stress Neurobiology laboratory, and served as the Director of Psychiatry Residency Research Track. In 2018, Dr. Liberzon was recruited as a founding Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at Texas A&M University, and he established stress neurobiology, basic science, laboratory on TAMU MED campus, and a functional neuroimaging program at the Houston Methodist Research Institute. Dr. Liberzon’s primary research interest centers on emotions, stress, and stress-related disorders like PTSD, particularly in the regulation and dysregulation of stress response systems. His work integrates cognitive, functional neuroimaging, neuroendocrine, and genetic approaches. Under Dr. Liberzon’s leadership, his group had been continuously funded with multiple NIMH RO1 grants, VA Career development and NIH K awards, VA merit awards, Army and DoD grants, and more. He has published over 290 peer-reviewed manuscripts and has authored and edited several books and book chapters. Dr. Liberzon has also mentored 11 KO1 and VA Career Development awardees, > 30 postdocs and graduate students, and multiple trainees who are holding leading academic positions in first-ranked institutions around the world.