Academic Appointments

• Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (with tenure) and Uytengsu Family Director of the 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

• IBRO-Kemali International Prize in Neuroscience (2022)
• Judson Daland Prize, American Society of Philosophy (2021)
• Altman Award for Developmental Neuroscience, Japanese Neuroscience Society (2021)
• Schizophrenia Basic Science Award, Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS) (2021)
• Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year Prize, Falling Walls, Germany (2020)
• ​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 

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