Short Biography
Franjo Ivankovic, PhD is a research fellow at the Program in Brain Health at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and the Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Franjo completed B.S. in integrative biology, B.A. in anthropology, certificate in medical anthropology, and Ph.D. in genetics and genomics at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Franjo’s primary area of research is psychiatric genomics, with a focus on genomic underpinnings of obsessive-compulsive, eating, and related psychopathology. Franjo also engages with philosophical issues in psychiatry, especially the questions of nosology and classification of psychopathology. Franjo’s secondary research interests examine research ecosystems and the structural drivers of knowledge generation in academia, particularly within psychiatry and adjacent disciplines.
Affiliations and Associations
PRESENT:
2022 –
– Massachusetts General Brigham (Boston, Massachusetts) NEALE, DALY, SCHARF
– – Massachusetts General Hospital NEALE, DALY
– – – Department of Medicine NEALE, DALY
– – – – Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit NEALE, DALY
– – – Department of Psychiatry SCHARF
– – – – Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit SCHARF
– – – Center for Genomic Medicine NEALE, DALY
– Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (Cambridge, Massachusetts) NEALE, DALY
– – Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research NEALE, DALY
– – Program in Medical and Population Genetics NEALE, DALY
– – Program in Brain Health NEALE, DALY
– Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts) NEALE, DALY, HYMAN
– – Harvard Medical School NEALE, DALY
– – – Department of Medicine NEALE, DALY
– – Faculty of Arts and Sciences HYMAN
– – – Harvard College HYMAN
– – – – Program in General Education HYMAN
– University of Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland) DALY
– – Helsinki Institute of Life Science DALY
– – – Finnish Institute for Molecular Medicine DALY
PAST:
2020 – 2022
– University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida) MATHEWS
– – University of Florida College of Medicine MATHEWS
– – – Department of Psychiatry MATHEWS
– – – – Center for OCD, Anxiety, and Related Disorders MATHEWS
2017 – 2020
– University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida) SWANSON
– – University of Florida College of Medicine SWANSON
– – – Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology SWANSON
– – – – Center for NeuroGenetics SWANSON