A/Prof Stephen Wood
A/Prof Stephen Wood MA (CANTAB) PhD
Prinicipal Research Fellow
A/Prof Wood completed his undergraduate degree at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in 1994, followed by a PhD at the Institute of Child Health, London, in 1998. Since migrating to Australia at the end of 1997, he has worked with a number of research groups in Melbourne, but full time with the MNC since early 1999. His primary research interest concerns brain development during adolescence, and how alterations to this developmental process produce altered behaviours (including mental illness). Most of his research work to date has been in early psychosis, and particularly in the ultra-high risk cohort (in collaboration with the PACE clinic, ORYGEN Research Centre). A/Prof Wood was awarded an NH&MRC Clinical Career Development Award and a Fellowship from the National Alliance for Schizophrenia and Allied Disorders (NARSAD). These fellowships commenced in 2005. He is on the North Western Mental Health Research & Ethics Committee, and Editorial Board of the journal of Early Intervention in Psychiatry.