Artemis Iatrou, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Physiology & Biophysics
Artemis Iatrou, Ph.D., is a computational neuroscience researcher. Her research investigates how genetic vulnerability and environmental exposures, particularly stress, shape cell-specific molecular processes in the human brain.
Dr. Iatrou integrates human postmortem brain data with single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomics, multi-omic profiling, and genetic analyses to identify molecular mechanisms underlying post-traumatic stress disorder, major depressive disorder, Alzheimer’s disease, and brain aging. Her work examines the spatial organization and disease-associated states of neuronal and non-neuronal cell types, including glial, vascular, and immune cells, and the molecular pathways through which genetic and environmental factors converge.
By connecting genomic data to cellular mechanisms and clinical phenotypes, her research aims to identify biomarkers and prioritize therapeutic hypotheses for psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders.
Research interests: computational neurogenomics; single-cell and spatial transcriptomics; multi-omic data integration; neuronal and non-neuronal cell biology; psychiatric genomics; PTSD; depression; Alzheimer’s disease; aging; gene–environment interactions; systems biology; translational neuroscience.