Portrait of Amita Sehgal
Portrait of Amita Sehgal

Amita Sehgal, Ph.D.

Musser Professor of Neuroscience and HHMI Investigator Director, Chronobiology and Sleep Institute (CSI) Perelman School of Medicine

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  • University of Pennsylvania

Sehgal is the John Herr Musser Professor of Neuroscience, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and director of the Chronobiology and Sleep Institute (CSI) at the University of Pennsylvania. Sehgal received her Ph.D. from the Weill Graduate School of Cornell University and conducted her postdoctoral work at Rockefeller University. She has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of the molecular mechanisms that generate endogenous circadian rhythms and the genetic mechanisms and functions of sleep.

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Amita Sehgal

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