Academic Appointments
  • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and The Bonnie Uytengsu and Family Director of the Stanford Brain Organogenesis Program
  • CZI Ben Barres Investigator
  • NYSCF Robertson Stem Cell Investigator

Other affiliations & positions
Honors & Awards
  • C.J. Herrick Award in Neuroanatomy, American Association of Anatomy (2020)
  • Nature Medicine’s Featured Physician-Scientists, Nature Medicine (2019)
  • Daniel E. Efron Award, ACNP (2018)
  • Günter Blobel Early Career Award, ASCB (2018)
  • Vilcek Award for Creative Biomedical Promise (2018)
  • ​A.E. Bennett Award for Biological Psychiatry (2018)
  • NYSCF Roberston Stem Cell Investigator (2018-2022)
  • Jordi Folch-Pi Award for Neurochemistry (2017)
  • NARSAD Independent Investigator Award (2017)
  • NIMH Director's BRAINS Award, NIMH (2015)
  • Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Faculty Award (2015)
  • MQ Fellow Award for Transforming Mental Health  (2014)
  • NARSAD Young Investigator Award, BBRF (2013)
  • ​Grand Prize Best Romanian Student Abroad (2013)
  • Sammy Kuo Award, Best Postdoctoral publication in Neuroscience at Stanford University (2012)
  • Best Postdoctoral Research Award at Stanford (2012)
  • Tashia & John Morgridge Endowed Fellow (2010)
  • IBRO Outstanding Research Fellow (2009)

​Professional Education
  • Postdoctoral, Stanford University School of Medicine, California, Neuroscience (2013)
  • Medical Doctor, Hatieganu School of Medicine, Romania, (2007)
New York Times Visionaries in Medicine
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More about Sergiu in this SFARI Rising Star profile, the Stanford Medicine Magazine story and the Vilcek award profile and story or the Nature Medicine profile, The Scientist: Brain Builder 
The award-winning documentary Minds Wide Open featuring our research