Dr. Devanand Manoli

One Mind Janssen Translational Rising Star Award in Memory of Jeffrey S. Nye, MD, PhD

Sensory and Neural Mechanisms Underlying Social Attachment. University of California San Francisco.

Dr. Manoli’s lab is revealing how social bonds form and falter in mental illness, translating basic neurocircuitry discoveries into potential treatments for disorders of attachment.

Dr. Devanand Manoli is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and neuroscientist whose research focuses on the neural circuits underlying social attachment and their disruption in neuropsychiatric disorders. Combining molecular, genetic, and developmental approaches, he investigates how environmental and genetic factors shape social behavior and vulnerability to illness. Dr. Manoli earned his M.D. and Ph.D. in neuroscience from Stanford University and completed psychiatry training and a child psychiatry fellowship at UCSF.