Dante Cicchetti, PhD, McKnight Presidential Chair and professor of developmental science in the Institute of Child Development, recently reached a new career milestone illustrating the breadth of his impact on the field of children’s mental health: His research has now received more than 100,000 citations. 
 
Cicchetti’s pioneering work has defined and established the field of developmental psychopathology, and he is recognized by the National Institutes of Health as one of their top grantees. He is director of research for the Institute for Translational Research in Children’s Mental Health (ITR), and serves as a principal investigator on TRANSFORM Center for Child Maltreatment, for which ITR, in conjunction with the University of Rochester’s Mt. Hope Family Center, received an $8.39 million direct cost award over five years to create a national center for child maltreatment studies. 

Cicchetti has received numerous awards for his work, including the Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize, and several honors from the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association (APA). He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the 2019 recipient of the APA’s Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award.