Gita Pathak, PhD

Dr. Pathak is an tenure track Assistant Professor with joint appointments at Institute for Genomic Health, and Department of Genetics and Genomics Sciences at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She directs a research lab – ‘Genomics of Aging and Psychiatry spectrum’ (GAPs Lab) which is an interdisciplinary research group that studies the effect of mental health on age-related disorders by integrating multi-omic data and electronic health records. The GAPsLab is supported by the Alzheimer’ Association Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, and the K99/R00 from National Institute of Aging. 

Dr. Pathak completed her postdoctoral training at Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry, where she was involved in applying multi-omic strategies, to characterize several complex traits including cancer, dementias, amyloidopathies, psychiatric disorders, and susceptibility to COVID-19.  She also served as an analyst for several high-impact projects, including the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium's Major Depression and the PTSD Working Group, the Gulf War project for the Million Veteran Program, and the COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative. She also contributed as a communications coordinator for the Yale Postdoctoral Association and mentored PhD students through Yale’s Women in Science initiative. Before her postdoc, Dr. Pathak earned her PhD at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth, where her research on Alzheimer’s disease comorbidities earned the Dean’s Award in Research, and T32 Neurobiology of Aging fellowship.