Julio Licinio

Julio Licinio, M.D., FRANZCP, is Deputy Director for Translational Medicine and Head, Mind, and Brain Theme at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute and Strategic Professor of Psychiatry, Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. He is also a Research Professor at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Adelaide, and Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Minho, in Braga, Portugal. He was previously Professor and Director, John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University (ANU), and head of the Department of Translational Medicine (2009-2013).

Professor Licinio is originally from Brazil and lived for over 25 years in the United States, where he had clinical and research training in endocrinology and psychiatry at the University of Chicago, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Cornell. Professor Licinio is recognized internationally as a leader in translational research on depression and obesity. He has conducted medical research for over 20 years at Yale, NIH, UCLA, University of Miami, and the ANU, with key leadership positions in those institutions. He is also current and founding Editor of three Nature Publishing Group journals, Molecular Psychiatry (Impact Factor: 15.147 number 1 worldwide), The Pharmacogenomics Journal (Impact Factor 5.5), and Translational Psychiatry (Impact Factor 4.36). Professor Licinio’s translational and genomics research spans the lab and clinic examining obesity, depression, and their interface, including the cognitive effects of leptin.