Leanna Hernandez, PhD

Leanna M. Hernandez, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. She directs a research laboratory examining the genetic and neurobiological etiology of autism, schizophrenia, and related psychiatric disorders. Her work focuses on identifying genes associated with neurodevelopmental disorders through large-scale genome wide association studies (GWAS) and transcriptomic profiling of brain gene expression. She is a member of UCLA’s Center for Autism Research and Treatment, Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics, and the Brain Research Institute, and serves as Co-Director of the Genetics, Genomics, and Informatics Core for UCLA’s Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center.