Dr. Mirnics earned his medical degree from the University of Novi Sad , and his Ph.D. from Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh where he established his own laboratory in 2000. In 2006, his laboratory moved to the department of psychiatry at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.
In 2010, Dr. Mirnics was named James G. Blakemore Professor of Psychiatry and served as the departmental vice chair for research and associate director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center. In 2016 he joined the UNMC family, becoming the fourth Director of the Munroe-Meyer Institute for Genetics and Rehabilitation (MMI).
As an internationally recognized, disease-oriented neuroscientist, Dr. Mirnics collaborates with scientists across the country and the world working with his research team to discover the molecular basis of human brain disorders, and develop treatments for these conditions. His innovative research uses a variety of genetic, molecular, cell biology and behavioral tools across multiple diseases models, and has attracted more than $15 million of extramural funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Dr. Mirnics serves on the editorial boards of more than a dozen prominent scientific journals and numerous national scientific advisory committees, and he is an content expert for the ASPR National Advisory Committee for Developmental Disabilities and Disasters. He has authored more than 150 scientific publications, which have been cited more than 14,000 times. He has received multiple prominent national and local awards, including the 2018 Help is Hope Award from the Autism Action Partnership recognition as the 2019 Friends of Scottish Rite Honoree. He is an elected member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences external council, serves on the board of directors of Special Olympic International, and chairs the SOI Global Medical Advisory Committee for the 6 million athletes worldwide.