Academic Appointments

• Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
• ​Uytengsu Director, Stanford Brain Organogenesis Program
• CZI Ben Barres Investigator
• NYSCF Robertson Stem Cell Investigator

Other affiliations & positions

• Director of the Human Brain Organogenesis Program in the Stanford Wu Tsai Neuroscience Institute
• Member, Stanford Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
• Affiliate member, Stanford Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Institute 
• Faculty Fellow of the Stanford ChEM-H Institute
• Member, Stanford Bio-X
• Member, Child Health Research Institute

Honors & Awards

• Daniel E. Efron Award, ACNP (2018)
• ASCB Early Career Life Sciences Award (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 

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