Award Recipients
Andrew C. Leon Distinguished Career Award Recipients
2024
Richard Keefe, PhD
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2023
Larry Ereshefsky, PharmD, FCCP. BCPP
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2021
Stephen R. Marder, MD
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2020
Robert K. Heinssen, PhD, ABPP
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2019
Janet Williams, PhD
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2018
William Z. Potter, MD, PhD
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2017
Larry D. Alphs, MD, PhD
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2016
Charles Bowden, MD
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2015
A. George Awad, MB, BCh, PhD, FRCP
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2014
Helena Kraemer, PhD
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2013
Thomas Laughren, MD
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2012 (Inaugural)
Nina R. Schooler, PhD
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Lewis A. Opler Prize Recipients
2024
Seth Hopkins, PhD
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2023
Søren Østergaard, MD, PhD
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2022
Amy Pinkham, PhD
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2021 (Inaugural)
Alex Cohen, PhD
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New Investigator Award Recipients
2024
Michael Avissar, MD, PhD
Medical Director, Alto Neuroscience
Olya Besedina, MS
Science Associate, Click Therapeutics
Denia Cai Shi, PhD
Janssen-Drexel Fellow, Psychiatric Drug Development, Janssen Research & Development; Drexel University College of Medicine
Maria Companioni, APRN, PMHRN, DNP
Sub-Investigator, CenExel
Hardik Kothare, PhD
Research Scientist, Modality.AI
Martina Micaletto, MSc
Clinical Scientist, Signant Health
Collin Price, MD
Psychiatrist, Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior at UCLA
Leif Simmatis, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
Matthew Sloan, MD
Clinician Scientist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Shankar Tumati, MBBS, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto
2023
Joao De Aquino, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine
Bridget Kajs, PhD
Psychiatric Drug Development Fellow, Janssen Pharmaceuticals and Drexel University
Steven Lamontagne, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Mental Health
Camila Lima, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Krista Wartchow, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
2022
Lais Behring Martins, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Ana Paula Costa, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Matthew Klein, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry/Assistant Director of the Depression and Anxiety Center for Discovery and Behavioral Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Jennifer Olt, PhD
Clinical Scientist, Signant Health
2021
Ellen Bradley, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco / San Francisco VA Medical Center
Brisa Fernandes, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Victor Tang, MSc, MD
Resident, Clinician Scientist Program, Department of Psychiatry, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto
Corinde Wiers, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Radiology, Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
2020
Reilly Kayser, MD
Fellow, Department of Psychiatry; Assistant in Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University / New York State Psychiatric Institute
Jessica Lipschitz, PhD
Instructor / Staff Psychologist, Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women’s University
Alexandre Paim Diaz, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Xin Qiu, PhD
Senior Statistician, Janssen Research & Development
Rajiv Radhakrishnan, MBBS, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine
2019
Cristan Farmer, PhD
Staff Psychologist (Research), Office of the Clinical Director, National Institute of Mental Health
Bashkim Kadriu, MD
Clinical Fellow, Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch, National Institute of Mental Health
Abigail Nash, MD, PhD
Associate Medical Director, Janssen Pharmaceuticals
Mark Niciu, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Iowa Neuroscience Institute,
University of Iowa Health Care
Samuel Wilkinson, MD
Assistant Professor, Yale School of Medicine
Assistant Director, Yale Depression Research Program
Adam Ziemann, MD, PhD
Medical Director, Neuroscience Development, AbbVie
2018
Teddy Akiki, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University School of Medicine
Elizabeth Ballard, PhD
Director of Psychology and Behavior Research and Director of Predoctoral Training, Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch, National Institute of Mental Health
Research Associate, John Hopkins School of Medicine
Timothy Mariano, MD, PhD, MSc
Associate Psychiatrist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Daniel Seichepine, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychology and Neurology, University of New Hampshire
Central Reviewer, Bracket and Clintara
2017
Zhi-De Deng, PhD
Research Fellow, National Institute of Mental Health
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine
Dawn Ionescu, MD
Assistant Psychiatrist, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Manish Jha, MBBS
Assistant Professor, Center for Depression Research and Clinical Care, Department of
Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Adjunct Faculty, Clinical Psychology Graduate Program, Southwestern Graduate School, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Hiroyoshi Takeuchi MD, PhD
Clinical Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Postdoctoral Fellow, Schizophrenia Division, Complex Mental Illness Program, Centre for
Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto
2016
Lynette Averill, PhD
Research Psychologist/Associate Research Scientist
National Center for PTSD- Clinical Neurosciences Division
Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
Walter Dunn, MD, PhD
Research Fellow/Clinical Instructor
Greater Los Angeles VA
Health Sciences Department of Psychiatry, UCLA
Mehdi Farokhina, MD
Research Fellow
Section of Clinical Psychoneuroendocrinology and Neuropsychopharmacology
National Institutes of Health
Xiang Li, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Department of Biostatistics
Columbia University
Sudhakar Selvaraj, MBBS, MRCPsych, DPhil (PhD, Oxon)
Assistant Professor/Director of Student Counseling Center
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of Texas Health Science Center
2015
Isabelle Bauer, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of Texas Health Science Center
Michaela Defrancesco, MSc, PhD
Research Assistant
Department of General and Social Psychiatry
Medical University Innsbruck, Austria
Marta Pecina Iturbe, MD, PhD
Research Investigator
Department of Psychiatry
University of Michigan
Bethany Stangl, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Laboratory of Clinical and Translational Studies
NIAAA
2014
Rosie Curiel, PsyD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez, MD, PhD
Research Fellow
Mood Disorders
Icahn School of Medicine, Mt. Sinai
Valentino Pironti, BSc, MSc, PhD, CPsychol
Research Fellow
Department of Psychiatry
University of Cambridge
Steven Szabo, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Duke University Medical Center
2013
Ariana Anderson, PhD
Assistant Research Statistician
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
David Geffen Schoolof Medicine, UCLA
Jesus J. Gomar, PhD
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
The Litwin-ZuckerResearch Center for the Study of Alzheimer’s Disease
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Shawn M. McClintock, PhD, MSCS
Instructor
Department of Psychiatry And Behavioral Sciences
Duke University
David L. Roberts, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry, Division of Schizophrenia and Related Disorders
UTHealth Science Center, San Antonio
2012 (Inaugural)
Chadi G. Abdallah, MD
Research Fellow
Dept of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT USA
William V. Bobo, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Dept of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, TN USA
William R. Keller, MD
Clinical Research Fellow
Dept of Psychiatry, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center
University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD USA
Martin Strassnig, MD
Assistant Professor
Dept of Psychiatry, Miller School of Medicine
University of Miami, Miami, Florida USA
Walter Swardfager, PhD
Postdoctoral Trainee
Neuropsychopharmacology Research Program
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario Canada