Mady Hornig

Mady Hornig is an American psychiatrist and an associate professor of epidemiology at Columbia Universitys Mailman School of Public Health, where she is Director of Translational Research in the Center for Infection and Immunity . A physicianscientist, her research involves clinical, epidemiological, and animal model research on autism and related neurodevelopmental conditions. She directs the clinical core of an international investigation of the role of Borna disease virus in human mental illness and participates as a key investigator for the Autism Birth Cohort project, a large prospective epidemiological study, based in Norway, that is identifying how genes and timing interact with environmental agents preceding the onset of autism spectrum diagnoses. In 2006, she was appointed as Guest Professor at the School of Basic Medical Science of Beijing University in Beijing, China.

Hornig is a native of Brooklyn. She married Jim HornigRohan in 1979. They met at the Cancer Institute of Harvard Medical School, when both were doing research in immunology. They have a child, Russell, who was born in July 1985.

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