Dr. Hamid Mostafavi Abdolmaleky is a staff scientist at BIDMC, Harvard Medical School, and a research scientist for Biomedical Genetics at the Boston University Chobanian and the Avedisian School of Medicine. He worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow (Psychiatry, Epidemiology, Genetics, and Epigenetics) at Harvard University in 2001–2007. This was followed by a joint Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Nutrition and Metabolism at BIDMC, Harvard Medical School, and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Epigenetics of Mental Diseases at Boston University School of Medicine for six years. He has been working as a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at Iran University of Medical Sciences for 15 years. He started his enrollment in a post-doctoral Psychiatric Genetics Training Program at the Harvard Institute of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics in November 2001. He wrote a dozen review articles on “methylomics in psychiatry” and published more than a dozen articles on his original research findings. As a psychiatrist with skills in basic science research, his ultimate goal is to find novel strategies to treat the affected patients based on their genetic and epigenetic makeup and potentially develop new therapeutic modalities for these illnesses.