Anilkumar Pillai

Anilkumar Pillai, PhD, is a Professor and Louis A. Faillace Chair in Psychiatry and Program Director of the Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences Graduate Programs. He also serves as the Director of the Research Track Psychiatry Residency Program at the McGovern Medical School. He is also the Director of the Translational Psychiatry Program and the Career Development and Research Excellence (CaDRE) Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He is a translational neuroscience researcher with a longstanding research program specifically in understanding the pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric disorders that can lead to the development of novel treatment strategies. He is the recipient of several federal and non-federal grants and contracts, including current and actives awards from NIH and Department of Veteran Affairs. He serves on grant review committees, NIH study sections and journal editorial boards. He is a well published author, co-author of more than 100 peer reviewed publications, several book chapters, and abstracts. Pillai is an elected Fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. He is the Chair of the Gulf Coast Consortia Mental Health Research Cluster steering committee. He has an extensive record of training graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty.