Positions Held:
John B. Vincent, Ph.D
Senior Scientist and Head,
Molecular Neuropsychiatry and Development Laboratory,
Room number 602,
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
Tel: (416)535-8501 Ext 6487
Fax: (416)979-4666
Email: john_vincent@camh.net
Full Faculty Member
Associate Professor,
Department of Psychiatry and Institute of Medical Science,
University of Toronto
Associate Scientist,
The Centre for Applied Genomics,
The Hospital for Sick Children
Editor,
Psychiatric Genetics
Associate Professor, Assistant Professor,
Child and Family Program, Neuroscience Program,
Department of Psychiatry,
University of Toronto
A Brief Biosketch
Dr. John B. Vincent undertook his undergraduate studies in biochemistry at the University of Manchester. He completed his Ph.D. at University College London Medical School, London, in 1994, with Dr. Hugh Gurling, in the Department of Academic Psychiatry.
Since then he has worked with Dr. James Kennedy in the Neurogenetics Section at the Clarke Division, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto and with Dr. Stephen Scherer in the Dept. of Genetics at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.
Since 2002, he has worked as a Scientist/Principal Investigator back at CAMH, and is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Psychiatry and cross-appointed in the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto. His work is on the genetics of major
psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder, but with the main focus looking at the genetics and genomics of autism and intellectual disability.
Awards
Junior Investigator Award, World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics, Cardiff, August 1995
Clarke Research Fellowship Award for November 1995-November 1996
Medical Research Council/ Schizophrenia Society of Canada Fellowship Award for November 1996-November 1999
Young Investigator Award, International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, Colorado Springs, April 1997
Junior Investigator Award, World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics, Santa Fe, October 1997
Junior Investigator Award, World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics, Bonn, October 1998
Junior Investigator Award, World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics, Monterey, October 1999
Award for best poster, Genetics and Genomic Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Research Institute Scientific Retreat, December 1999
Young Investigator Award, National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders, July 2000-June 2002
Junior Investigator Award, World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics, Versailles, August 2000.
Dean’s Award, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Dec 2001.
Young Investigator Award, National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders, July 2004-June 2006
Seaver Investigator, 2004 (NARSAD Research Partners Program)
Early Researcher Award (Ontario Ministry of Research), 2005
Independent Investigator Award, National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Affective Disorder, 2008-2010
