Sam Vesuna

Sam earned his Bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering from Yale University in 2012, his Ph.D. in bioengineering from Stanford University in 2020, and his M.D. from the University of California, Irvine in 2022. His graduate work in Karl Deisseroth's lab included studying the neural basis of dissociation (Vesuna et al. Nature 2020). He is a research-track psychiatry resident and specializes in brain-wide, large-scale, hypothesis-free screens of brain activity, physiology and molecular mechanisms underlying subjective experience in rodents and human.