title: William E. Bunney
text: # William E. Bunney
  
  William E. Bunney is a neuroscientist focused on discovering the genes that cause major depressive disorder, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. He is a Distinguished Professor with the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and the Della Martin Chair of Psychiatry at the University of California, Irvine. He is also the director of the UC Irvine node of the Pritzker Neuropsychiatric Disorders Research Consortium.
  
  He is a Lifetime National Associate of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
  
  