Dr. Jennifer Felger, PhD, MSc, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Felger’s work combines basic and clinical approaches to understand the mechanisms by which inflammation affects neurotransmitters and circuits to cause depressive symptoms in patients with psychiatric or medical illnesses. She is currently testing novel therapies that might reverse the effects of inflammation on circuits and symptoms in these patients, including in depressed people with HIV (PWH). Dr. Felger has a PhD in Neuroscience and a Master’s in Clinical Research from Emory, and she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at The Rockefeller University. Her research has been continually funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and foundations like the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, which awarded her the Klerman Prize for Exceptional Clinical Research in 2017. As Director of the Laboratory of the Emory Behavioral Immunology Program, Dr. Felger also oversees immune-based laboratory assays for a number of clinical studies in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Winship Cancer Institute.
