Dr. Jennie Pouget is a Scientist and Psychiatrist in the Slaight Family Centre for Youth in Transition and Tanenbaum Centre for Pharmacogenetics. Clinically, she provides outpatient care for young people experiencing psychosis through CAMH’s Slaight Centre Early Intervention Service. She is also an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto and a Visiting Scientist at the Broad Institute of Harvard & MIT.
Dr. Pouget completed her psychiatry residency in the University of Toronto’s Clinician Scientist Program. Her scientific training includes a Fulbright Fellowship in computational biology at Harvard University, combined MD/PhD training at the University of Toronto focused on genomics of schizophrenia, and a Postdoctoral Fellowship jointly at the University of Toronto and Broad Institute of Harvard & MIT applying multimodal single-cell resolution sequencing to study how epigenetic regulation shapes brain development.
Areas of Research
Dr. Jennie Pouget’s research focuses on understanding why some young people develop severe mental illnesses while others do not, with the goal of enabling earlier detection, more precise diagnosis, and personalized treatment. Her lab integrates large-scale human genetic studies with cutting-edge multimodal sequencing technologies to identify disease-relevant biological pathways, brain and immune cell types, and neurodevelopmental windows. A central aim of her work is to translate these biological discoveries into practical clinical tools that can improve outcomes for youth and families.
Her work has clarified immune-neurodevelopmental pathways, identified biologically grounded disease subtypes using novel statistical methods, and advanced genomic predictors for personalized treatment across diverse populations. Her research has been funded by CIHR, NIH, Brain Canada, Fulbright Canada, Weston Brain Institute, and others.
Learn more about Dr. Pouget’s research and opportunities to join the Pouget Lab: https://jpouget.github.io/
Publications
View Dr. Pouget's publications on PubMed