Dr Naruto Pakunwanich

Dr Pakunwanich is a Junior Psychiatrist and Research Fellow at the University. His background was originally in molecular biology, submitting an MSc thesis on 'Identifying RNF213-associated signalling pathways linking pattern recognition receptors and E3 ubiquitin ligase activity' (2022) at the University of Glasgow and MRC-CVR, then later graduated from Lancaster University MBChB (2023). His work during this time focused on integrating physical and mental health, with previous work for the NIHR School of Public Health Research and the British Medical Journal (BMJ) as a Clegg Scholar (2023). He then completed the junior academic residency training (Academic Foundation) at Cambridge University from 2023-2025, and was a clinical research fellow in the Voon laboratory for Interventional Neuropsychiatry from 2024-25. He was a clinical supervisor at Clare College, Cambridge for MB BChir students for the same period. From 2025 he worked as an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow Specialty Registrar for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ACF ST1-3) at the University. In 2025-26, he was named a Churchill Fellow, by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, UK, and studied Tojisha-Kenkyu, a decolonising dialogic practice in Japan and South Korea. During his academic psychiatrist core training at CPFT, he joined the Cambridge Centre for Precision Psychiatry and Data Science, pursuing an interest in electronic health records (EHR) for the personalisation of medication choices in psychotic disorders and the genetic basis of Schizophrenia.