Jean Lud Cadet

Jean Lud Cadet
Cadet's official National Institute on Drug Abuse photo, 2017
Born
Alma materColumbia University
Collège Notre-Dame
Scientific career
InstitutionsNational Institute on Drug Abuse
National Institutes of Health
Mount Sinai Health System
Columbia University

Jean Lud Cadet is a Haitian-American psychiatrist at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), where he serves as National Institutes of Health Chief of the Molecular Neuropsychiatry Research Branch. His research considers the genetic, epigenetic and cellular bases of substance abuse. In 2020 he was selected as one of Cell Press' Most Inspiring Black Scientists in America.