Since 2016, the ABCD Charitable Trust has supported the Laboratory of Genetic Neurobiology, a research unit headed by psychiatrist, professor and researcher Russell L. Margolis, affiliated with the Division of Neurobiology of the Department of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the United States.The ABCD Trust partially funds the innovative research strategy of the Margolis team, exploring some of the most difficult questions posed by schizophrenia and other psychiatric diseases. As specific objectives, the laboratory’s work aims in the short term to discover mechanisms that can lead to neurological diseases and to develop treatment strategies for diseases caused by the mutation of a single gene studied by the group in the medium-term. Its long-range goal is to apply learnings from studying these relatively simpler diseases to more complicated disorders, such as schizophrenia. At the same time, the laboratory called on support from the ABCD Trust to advance its research on improving care to persons with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder, as well to better understand these diseases for development of more effective interventions.
