Rodrigo Machado-Vieira

Rodrigo Machado-Vieira, MD, PhD, MSc, is a Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Experimental Therapeutics and Molecular Pathophysiology Program at the University of Texas, UTHealth, Houston. He was previously at the Intramural National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), where he was the Director of the Translational Research Clinic in Mood Disorders at the Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch. Machado-Vieira received his MD from PUC-RS in Porto Alegre, Brazil and his PhD...See more

Rodrigo Machado-Vieira, MD, PhD, MSc, is a Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Experimental Therapeutics and Molecular Pathophysiology Program at the University of Texas, UTHealth, Houston. He was previously at the Intramural National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), where he was the Director of the Translational Research Clinic in Mood Disorders at the Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch. Machado-Vieira received his MD from PUC-RS in Porto Alegre, Brazil and his PhD in Psychiatry at the University of Sao Paulo, following his Residency Training in Psychiatry. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Laboratory of Molecular Pathophysiology and Experimental Therapeutics at NIMH, he led the Mood Disorders Program, LIM-27 at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Dr. Machado-Vieira has received several grants and Awards for his research on Mood Disorders including the National Institutes of Health Fellows Award for Research Excellence, the Brazilian Psychiatric Association Award, the Gerald Klerman Young Investigator Award, Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA), Sao Paulo Young Investigator Research Award, and the Stanley Medical Research Institute Research Award. He was Chair of the Nominating Committee of the International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD). Dr. Machado-Vieira published more than 200 articles published and over 12,500 citations. See less