UCI Podcast: Amal Alachkar from leaving Syria to preventing psychiatric disorders

Since 2011, 13 million Syrians have fled the nation's civil war. Amal Alachkar and her family were among them. Alachkar tells the UCI podcast how she went from establishing Syria's first neuroscience research lab to an associate professor of teaching in pharmaceutical sciences at UCI to helping establish an online master's in pharmacology and working to prevent psychiatric disorders for the children of her fellow refugees. For more information on Alachkar's work with schizophrenia, autism, and Alzheimer's, visit https://bit.ly/2EQte2S.