Amit Etkin, MD, PhD, is the Founder and CEO of Alto Neuroscience. He is a trained psychiatrist, neuroscientist and joined the Stanford faculty in 2010. As a tenured Professor, he became an international leader in the neuroscience of psychiatric disorders and their treatments. In recognition of the influence of his ideas and work, Amit received the Director’s Pioneer Award; the most competitive and prestigious NIH grant and the first one given in clinical psychiatry. The success of his work at Stanford led him to leave his professorship to found Alto, which builds on this work in order to advance precision psychiatry with respect to actionable, real-world, clinical and commercial outcomes. Amit brings broad-based scientific and programmatic leadership and a compelling vision for connecting scientific discoveries to pragmatic clinical and business goals.