Susan Maloney, PhD
Director, Animal Behavior Subunit of IDDRC@WUSTL; Assistant Director, Animal Behavior Core; Associate Professor of Psychiatry
- Email: maloneys@nospam.wustl.edu
Susan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. She received her PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience from the University of Missouri – St. Louis and completed her thesis work on the neurotoxic and behavioral consequences of clinically-relevant early postnatal anesthesia exposure as a graduate researcher in the Department of Psychiatry at WUSM. In 2012, She joined the lab of Dr. Joe Dougherty in the Department of Genetics at WUSM as a postdoc to study autism behavioral genetics. She then joined the WUSM Department of Psychiatry faculty in 2017. Her research focuses on the impact of genetic and environmental liabilities for intellectual and developmental disorders (IDD) on neural circuit function. In her roles as Director of the Animal Behavior Subunit of the IDDRC@WUSTL and Assistant Director of the ABC, she heads the team that provides rodent model behavioral characterization and analysis to IDD Investigators.
