Overview
Updated 14 Jul 2026
Roy Perlis, MD, is Vice Chair for Research, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital. The public record shows 908 publications with 51,098 citations (h-index 105), centered on Bipolar Disorder and Treatment, Treatment of Major Depression, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology. It also documents an investigator role on 5 registered clinical trials, industry payments reported by 1 companies, 16 NIH-funded awards (2003–2026).
- Most recent indexed publication: 2026 · medRxiv
- Top research focus: Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- 5 registered trials on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Open Payments reporting from 1 companies
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Works withtrial sponsors and companies reporting payments
Scholarshipindexed output and impact (OpenAlex)
View publications ↓Distinct works indexed by OpenAlex, matched via ORCID; 45 in PubMed.
Total citations across indexed works.
Hirsch index (OpenAlex). i10-index 408.
Clinical & industrytrials, payments and federal funding
Clinical trials
Updated 14 Jul 2026
Listed as an investigator on 5 registered studies on ClinicalTrials.gov. The most recent:
- Routine vs. Early Postpartum Depression Screening: A Pragmatic Clinical Trial
Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital
InvestigatorNot, yet, recruitingNCT07460063 - A Proof of Concept Study of Intravenous Sodium Nitroprusside in Adults With Symptomatic Schizophrenia
Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital
InvestigatorPhase 2CompletedNCT02164981 - Adjunctive Isradipine for the Treatment of Bipolar Depression
Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital
InvestigatorPhase 2TerminatedNCT01784666
Industry payments
Updated 14 Jul 2026
1 company reported payments to CMS in program years 2022–2025. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- Alkermes, Inc.Program year20251 payment
- Alkermes, Inc.Program year20241 payment
- Alkermes, Inc.Program year20231 payment
NIH funding
Updated 14 Jul 2026
16 NIH research awards on record, funded 2003–2026 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:
- JASPer-MH: Jointly Assessed Scalable Phenotypes for Mental Health
Massachusetts General Hospital
FY2026$2,109,289U01MH136059 - Characterization of schizophrenia liability genes in models of human microglial synaptic pruning
Massachusetts General Hospital
FY2026$592,223R01MH131687 - Scalable Phenotyping to Assay Risk in Childhood after eXposures in Pregnancy: SPARC-XP
Massachusetts General Hospital
FY2025$7,013,600UF1MH141632
Publications
Updated 14 Jul 2026
Their five most recent publications, matched to their ORCID record and linked to PubMed.
- Functional genomic profiling of schizophrenia-associated genes reveals key microglial regulators.
Neuropsychopharmacology
2026
Most-cited worksby citation count (OpenAlex)
Contact
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Office address
185 Cambridge St., Simches Research Center, Boston, MA 02114
Network
Updated 14 Jul 2026
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Background & recognition
Updated 14 Jul 2026
Credentials, appointments and honors, newest first, each linked to the public source it came from.
Educationdegrees and training on record
- B.Sc. in Neuroscience
Brown University
verifiedCorroborated by findmyKOL. We matched this record across two or more independent public sources (or a verified ORCID / NPI identifier bridge) before attributing it to this person.How we verify →perlislab.org ↗ - M.D.
Harvard Medical School
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Harvard School of Public Health
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Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology
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Editorial & leadership rolesjournal and society appointments
- Director
Center for Quantitative Health, Massachusetts General Hospital
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MD Endowed Chair, Massachusetts General Hospital
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JAMA+ AI (JAMA Network)
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Awards & honorshonors on the public record
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Secondary affiliationsappointments beyond the home institution
- Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
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Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research)
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Media & interviewspress, podcasts and appearances
- Guest
Rethinking Clinical Trials Podcast (May 21, 2026 episode), discussed his MGH Grand Rounds talk "Keeping a Human in the Loop: Scientific Publishing and AI"
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"Brain Trust: Conversations in Psychopharmacology" podcast (with Joseph F. Goldberg, MD), "Artificial Intelligence in Psychopharmacology: Promise and Pitfalls, With Roy Perlis, MD"
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"AI in Psychiatry: What's Ready and What's Not", Medscape
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Online presence
Updated 14 Jul 2026
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- Doximity
doximity.com/pub/roy-perlis-md
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linkedin.com/in/roy-perlis-0252254
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researchgate.net/profile/Roy-Perlis/3
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Mentions by otherswhere others cite or feature them
- Other
mghmcleanpsychiatry.massgeneralbrigham.org/faculty_member/roy-perlis-md
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mghpsychnews.org/roy-perlis-md-msc-the-mental-health-costs-of-the-pandemic-epidemic-podcast
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