ANGELICA TORRES-BERRÍO

Dr. Angélica Torres-Berrío is the Director of Social and Cognitive Research at the Lurie Center for Autism at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She opened her lab in July 2023 to study epigenetic mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric conditions.
Dr. Torres-Berrío grew up in Bogotá, Colombia, where she earned a B. A. in Psychology at the National University of Colombia, and then moved to Seville, Spain, to complete her Master's thesis at the University of Seville. She received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at McGill University in Canada and then went on to the Friedman Brain Institute at Mount Sinai for her postdoctoral training under the supervision of Dr. Eric Nestler, where she became a Robin Chemers Neustein Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Torres-Berrío is a Kavli National Academy of Science Frontiers Fellow and a Charles H. Hood Foundation Scholar.