Danielle Dick, Ph.D.

Dr. Danielle Dick is an Assistant Professor at the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics (VIPBG) at Virginia Commonwealth University. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology and behavior genetics in 2001 from Indiana University. She subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship in statistical genetics in the Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics at Indiana University School of Medicine. She was on the faculty in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology at Washington University, St. Louis from 2003 through June 2007, before joining VIPBG. Her research interests involve integrating behavioral and statistical/molecular genetics to study the development of patterns of substance use/dependence and related behavioral disorders across adolescence and into adulthood. She is the PI of an R01 investigating gene-environment interplay in adolescent substance use using data from the Finnish Twin Studies, and is a co-investigator on several large collaborative projects aimed at gene-identification, including the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism. She has served on the faculty at both the Boulder workshop on twin methodology, and its European counterpart in Egmond aan Zee. She received the Thompson Graduate Award from the Behavior Genetics Association in 1999 and the Fuller-Scott Young Investigator award in 2006.