Tamar Gur, MD, PHD
Associate Professor
Psychiatry
Academic information
- Department: Psychiatry
Research interests
- Transgenerational Transmission of Psychiatric Illness
- Microbiome
- Stress
About
Biography
My laboratory seeks to understand the contribution of maternal mental illness to the development in psychiatric outcomes in the offspring. They use an interdisciplinary approach to address the mechanisms of transgenerational transmission of psychiatric illness, including molecular, biochemical, epigenetic and behavioral methods.
Credentials
Education
- Residency - Psychiatry
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Presbyterian Medical Center/University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
6/1/2009 - 6/30/2013 - Doctor of Philosophy
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University Of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, PA, United States
8/1/2001 - 5/31/2008 - Doctor of Medicine (MD)
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University Of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, PA, United States
8/1/2001 - 5/31/2009
Certification
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American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology
9/24/2015
Research
Research interests
- Transgenerational Transmission of Psychiatric Illness
- Microbiome
- Stress
Honors and News
- NARSAD Young Investigator Award, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, 2014-2016
- Transdisciplinary Scholar, March of Dimes, Ohio Collaborative, 2015-2017
- KL2 Award, Ohio State CCTS, 2015-2017
- Career Development Leadership Award, Anxiety and Depression Association of America, 2014
- Faculty Achievement Award, 2015
- Landacre Research Honor Society Mentor of the Year, 2017
- K08 Career Award, National Institute of Mental Health, 2017-present