Associate Professor of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School

Physician Investigator (Cl) Center for Genomic Medicine, Mass General Research Institute

Faculty Chemical Biology PhD Program, Harvard University

Faculty Program in Neuroscience, Harvard University

Associate Member Chemical Biology Program, Broad Institute

Affiliate Faculty Harvard Stem Cell Institute

Medical Director OnTrack Program for First-Episode Psychosis, McLean Hospital

Psychiatrist Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital

M.S. in Molecular Biophysics Yale University 1994

MD Albert Einstein College of Medicine 2002

A.B. Harvard University 1993

M.M.Sc. Harvard Medical School 2009

M.D., Ph.D. with honors in Biophysics Albert Einstein College of Medicine 2002

adult stem cells; antipsychotic agents; beta catenin; catatonia; chemical biology; clozapine; histone deacetylase inhibitors; histone deacetylases; human neural stem cells; induced pluripotent stem cells; meditation; metabolome; mood disorders; neurobiology; neuroscience; schizophrenia Dr. Karmacharya is working at the intersection of chemical biology and stem cell biology to investigate the cellular-molecular underpinnings of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. He received an A.B. in Biochemistry from Harvard, an M.S. in Molecular Biophysics from Yale, and an M.D. and a Ph.D. in Biophysics from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. After his clinical training, he undertook postdoctoral studies in chemical biology under the mentorship of Prof. Stuart Schreiber.