Let’s Know Julio Licinio, Deputy Director At Sahmri

Julio Licinio is a deputy director at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, where his basic study is about the mind and brain. He is also a well-known professor of psychiatry at the Flinders University in Adelaide, medical professor of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School Of Medicine in Albuquerque among others.

Licinio is the current chief editor of three journals from the Nature Publishing Group. He has a vast scientific knowledge in pharamacogenomics (identifying individual’s response to therapeutic drugs). He even edited books on the topics like the biology of depression and pharamacogenomics. He published great significant research on psychiatry and a probable relation between obesity, depression, and antidepressants. He is registered as a specialist in psychiatry by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.

Julio Licinio received his doctor of medicine from the Federal University of Bahia, completed his training in internal medicine at the University of Sao Paulo and psychiatry at Albert Einstein in Bronx. He was a temporary advisor to the World Health Organization.

With the help of his group, Julio Licinio conducted wide spread research and work on pharmacogenomics. In that project, he found that some parts of the Mexican-American population are facing major depressive disorder. He then donated his reports to International Hap Map Project. Finally, his treatment response in this population was published in several areas.

Licinio’s works have come into recognition globally. On public demand, he was asked to comment on topics related to his career, life and mainly on medical research. He successfully writes a well-liked blog on science related subjects. He has raised his suggestions on more than 90 review panels and committees had over 200 abstracts at meeting presentations and controlled more than 60 symposia, discussions and workshops.

Even in his personal life, he never forgot to show his love towards science. He married Ma-Li Wong, who is also an expert on depression, pharmacogenomics and psychoneuroimmunology. They strongly worked together on editing books on pharmacogenomics and co-authored above150 papers. His research on the effects of peripheral inflammation in human brain, metabolism and behavior is continuing in their laboratory.