Julio Licinio

Julio Licinio is a Distinguished Professor at Upstate Medical University, where he leads research in biological psychiatry and molecular psychiatry. His work focuses on the neuroimmune mechanisms underlying depression, including microglial synapse pruning, microbiota-driven immune reprogramming, and natural killer cell dysfunction in neuroinflammatory disorders. Recent publications in *Molecular Psychiatry* and *Translational Psychiatry* explore gut microbiome–metabolome alterations in social defeat stress and the COIDS quartet linking chronic inflammation, obesity, and depressive syndromes. He advocates for precision and personalized treatment strategies in psychiatry, with international collaborations advancing translational neuroscience.