Tarik Hadzic

Postdoc-Clinical Fellow

THadzic@mednet.ucla.edu
Gonda 3309

Educational Background:
B.S. Molecular & Cell Biology / B.A. German Literature, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. (2005)
M.D., Ph.D., Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO. (2013)
Psychiatry Residency Program, Barnes-Jewish Hospital / Washington University, Saint Louis, MO. (2013-2016)
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Research Track Fellowship, UCLA Semel Institute. (2016 - present)

Research Project:
I am still developing a project but am broadly interested in combining molecular biology with bioinformatics to understand how chromatin biology affects gene expression, and how they contribute to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and neuropsychiatric illnesses. As a child psychiatrist, this is relevant to my work with patients with ASD, for whom, currently, very few treatments exist. At the moment, I am looking at structural variation in ASD and using HiC to understand neural development, and ASD.

Joined the lab:
2017