NADINE MICHEL

I became interested in research after spending a summer studying the prevalence of psychiatric illness in earthquake survivors in Haiti. I became intrigued by resilience to social stress and worked in a lab as an undergrad at Duke studying the neural circuits involved in susceptibility to social stress in a rodent model. I pursued an MD/PhD at UVA and used human stem cells to study how genomic stress during brain development can cause DNA damage in high-risk psychiatric genes. I look forward to joining the Penn research track and combining my interest in understanding mechanisms of resilience to stress with my passion for community mental health work.