Dalila C Pinto, PhD

Dr. Pinto is a tenured Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, and a faculty member of the Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, the Seaver Autism Center, the Friedman Brain Institute, and the Icahn Genomics Institute. Dr. Pinto’s laboratory focuses on identifying genes and biological pathways involved in various neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism, intellectual disability, epilepsy, and rett syndrome-like phenotypes. Dr. Pinto integrates various forms of genetic variation (deletions, duplications, indels, single-point mutations), with gene expression, epigenetics and clinical data, using a combination of innovative high-throughput experimental and bioinformatics approaches, that altogether could implicate novel risk factors and provide insights into the mechanisms underlying these disorders. Dr. Pinto’s laboratory also works with worldwide clinical collaborators that are responsible for patients and families recruitment and phenotypic examination.