Marco Pignatelli

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry · WashU Medicine · company speakers →

Marco Pignatelli, M.D., is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis and a rising leader in synaptic physiology and neuropsychiatry. His work integrates electrophysiology, pharmacology, and behavior to uncover how experience shapes synaptic plasticity and contributes to disorders such as depression, PTSD and schizophrenia. Marco earned his M.D. and completed a Residency in Clinical Pharmacology at Sapienza University of Rome. Then, Marco moved to the United States where he continued his scientific trajectory at the National Institutes of Health. Marco has made influential discoveries on stress-induced dopamine plasticity, circuit mechanisms of emotional behavior, and synaptic deficits linked to psychiatric disease. Marco has been awarded a NARSAD Young Investigator Grant by the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation. He is currently funded by the NIH and he has recently received a Mental Health Award by the Wellcome Trust Fundation. Recently he has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 A.E. Bennett Basic Research Award by the Society of Biological Psychiatry.

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