Niki Erlenmeyer-Kimling

Niki Erlenmeyer-Kimling is a professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University and chief of the Division of Genetics at New York State Psychiatric Institute.
Research.
Her research interests include genetic aspects of mental disorders (mainly schizophrenia) and human behavior genetics generally. She has conducted a longitudinal, prospective study of early indicators of later schizophrenia and a genetic-linkage, gene search study of schizophrenia in Croatia.
Honors.
Her honors include Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, the Dobzhansky Award, a National Institute of Mental Health Merit Award, the Warren Schizophrenia Research Award, an honorary doctorate of the State University of New York, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics, and a NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award.