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Fritz HennAssociate Director for Life Sciences
Fritz Henn oversees the Laboratory’s Biology and Medical Departments, which together have 180 employees and a yearly budget of $33 million. Research in the life sciences at Brookhaven includes sophisticated imaging techniques, basic studies on DNA, proteins, molecular and cellular mechanisms, and biomedical and environmental applications based on this research. One of Henn’s primary goals for his directorate is to form partnerships with medical schools so that clinicians and laboratory researchers can pool their expertise to perform medical research using advanced imaging equipment at Brookhaven. He has already helped to establish a Joint Center for Translational Biomedical Imaging with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Biographical InformationFritz Henn earned a Ph.D. in physiological chemistry from The Johns Hopkins University in 1967, and an M.D. from the University of Virginia in 1971. He performed his residency in the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine from 1971 to 1974. Henn began his career at the University of Iowa College of Medicine, and, in 1982, he joined Stony Brook University (SBU), where he became Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine. In addition, from 1982 to 1983, he was Director of the Long Island Research Institute, New York State Office of Mental Health, and, from 1983 to 1994, he was Director for SBU’s Institute for Mental Health Research. He moved to Germany in 1994, becoming a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Heidelberg and Director of the Central Institute of Mental Health, positions he held until he joined Brookhaven.
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