The team behind the science

Agnieszka Kalinowski, MD, PhD

Principal Investigator

Dr. Kalinowski is a board-certified psychiatrist and scientist whose work bridges clinical psychiatry and molecular neuroscience. She earned her MD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and her PhD in biomedical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and completed psychiatry residency at Stanford. She founded the Kalinowski Laboratory to bring rigorous, patient-centered science to serious mental illness. Her research focuses on the neuroimmune basis of synaptic pathology in psychiatric disease.

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Thomas Beck, MD, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

Dr. Beck is a psychiatry resident at Stanford. He completed his PhD in Immunology at Yale and MD at Stanford. He is interested in neuroimmune mechanisms in psychiatric disorders.

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Rivka Steinberg

Visiting Scholar

Rivka Steinberg is a MD candidate at the University of Michigan Medical School. Her research interests center on the role of the hormonal–immune axis in psychiatric disease and how a better understanding of these interactions may lead to improved patient care. She earned her bachelor's degree in Neurobiology and Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Marcus Ho, MS

LSRPII

Marcus has a masters degree from UC Merced College and a long time Stanford employee. He has a broad skillset including iPS cell culture, CRISPR, sample preparation for Array Tomography with the ultramicrotome, immunofluorescent microscopy and genomic extractions