Anna Sunshine, MD, PhD
Anna Sunshine completed her medical school, graduate school and psychiatry training at the University of Washington. Her graduate training was completed in the Department of Genome Sciences where she used high-throughput sequencing approaches to study the biological effects of complex genetic changes in the model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Connecting her background in genomics with psychiatry, Dr. Sunshine’s research now focuses on identifying genetic risk factors for schizophrenia and characterizing the biological effects of these risk alleles using induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) systems. Dr. Sunshine engages individuals living with schizophrenia and their families in research to further our current understanding of schizophrenia biology and help lay groundwork for future treatment development.
Education
Psychiatry Residency, University of Washington, 2020
MD, University of Washington, 2016
PhD, University of Washington, 2014
Department Affiliations
Centers/Programs
Recent Publications
(2026 Mar 10)
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 123(10): e2536039123
Sunshine AB, Gulsuner S, Williams CA, Sarchi M, Chen RY, Cavanaugh C, Hesson J, Mathieu J, Young JE, McClellan JM, King MC
(2025)
Front Psychiatry 16(): 1597895
Swamy N, Jepsen J, Werth BJ, Sunshine A, English C
(2024 Jan 3)
Neuron 112(1): 7-24
McClellan JM, Zoghbi AW, Buxbaum JD, Cappi C, Crowley JJ, Flint J, Grice DE, Gulsuner S, Iyegbe C, Jain S, Kuo PH, Lattig MC, Passos-Bueno MR, Purushottam M, Stein DJ, Sunshine AB, Susser ES, Walsh CA, Wootton O, King MC
(2023 Jul)
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 64(7): 980-988
Sunshine A, McClellan J
(2017 Feb)
PLoS Genet 13(2): e1006585
Sanchez MR, Miller AW, Liachko I, Sunshine AB, Lynch B, Huang M, Alcantara E, DeSevo CG, Pai DA, Tucker CM, Hoang ML, Dunham MJ
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