Chris Ching

Chris is a postdoctoral fellow in the Bearden Lab and the USC Lab of NeuroImaging. After earning a BA in Neuroscience and Philosophy from Pomona College, Chris worked with Dr. Michael Weiner at UCSF’s Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases where he performed multimodal neuroimaging research on a wide range of neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases. Chris currently works with Drs. Paul Thompson and Carrie Bearden on a number of projects through the Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics Through Meta Analysis Consortium (ENIGMA). With Dr. Bearden’s group, Chris is conducting a large-scale meta-analysis to characterize subcortical brain alterations in individuals with 22q11.2 Deletion and Duplication syndrome, the strongest known genetic risk factor for schizophrenia.