Nenad Sestan

Nenad Šestan (born 1970 in Zadar, Croatia^[1][2]) is Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Neuroscience and professor of comparative medicine, genetics and psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine.^[3] He received his MD from the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb in 1995 and his PhD from Yale School of Medicine in 1999.^[4][5][6]

Šestan and his research were profiled in The New York Times in July 2019.^[7] In 2019, he appeared in Nature's 10, a yearly list of "ten people who mattered in science" compiled by the scientific journal Nature.^[8] Šestan is a member of HAZU.^[1]