The IMAGE project is a multi-site, international effort supported by National Institutes of Health grant R01MH62873 to Dr. Faraone. IMAGE Project principal investigators are Philip Asherson, MRCPsych, Ph.D.; Tobias Banaschewski, Ph.D.; Jan Buitelaar, M.D., Ph.D.; Richard P. Ebstein, Ph.D.; Stephen V. Faraone, Ph.D.; Michael Gill, M.D., MRCPsych; Ana Miranda, Ph.D.; Fernando Mulas, Dr.D.; Robert D. Oades, Ph.D.; Herbert Roeyers, Ph.D.; Aribert Rothenberger, M.D.; Joseph Sergeant, Ph.D.; Edmund Sonuga-Barke, Ph.D.; Eric Taylor, M.D., Ph.D.; and Hans-Christoph Steinhausen, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Faraone is professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse. He is also director of medical genetics research and head of child and adolescent psychiatry research at the Center for Neuropsychiatric Genetics at Upstate Medical University.
Dr. Asherson is senior lecturer in molecular psychiatry and honorary consultant psychiatrist in the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College in London.
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