Ming T. Tsuang

Ming Tso Tsuang (; born 1931 in Tainan, Taiwan) is a professor of psychiatry affiliated with the University of California, San Diego (Behavioral Genomics Endowed Chair and University Professor; Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Director, Center for Behavioral Genomics, Department of Psychiatry) and Harvard University (directs the Harvard Institute of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics. He was Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School at Massachusetts Mental Health Center)., He is considered a pioneering researcher in the genetic epidemiology of schizophrenia and other mental disorders. He was the fourth president of the International Society for Psychiatric Genetics (2005-2010) and the winner of its 1995 Lifetime Achievement Award, which is named after him. Among other awards, he also received the 2010 Lieber Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Schizophrenia Research. He is senior editor of the American Journal of Medical Genetics part B.