Karoly Mirnics, MD, PhD, is the director of the Munroe-Meyer Institute for Genetics and Rehabilitation and Hattie B. Munroe Professor of Psychiatry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Experimental Neuroscience at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Dr. Mirnics obtained his MD from the University of Novi Sad School of Medicine in his hometown in 1986 and his PhD from Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Mirnics has a broad background in molecular neurobiology of brain diseases, with more than 20 years of experience in various molecular biology techniques. His research group is actively pursuing projects that include transcriptome changes across human brain diseases, animal models of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders, effects of maternal immune activation and environment on gene expression, and neuroprotection by activity.