2024 Early Career Investigator Program Award Recipients

Melek Chaouch | Sex-Specific Genome-Wide Association Studies of Suicide Phenotypes

Zeli Chen | Prioritizing Candidate Genes in Genomic Risk Loci for Alcohol-Related Behavior with Functional and Statistical Fine-Mapping

Mihael Cudic | Polygenic Scores across Environmental Contexts: How Intersectionality Affects Predictive Accuracy for Psychiatric Conditions

Gabriele da Silva Campos | The Genetic Architecture of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Admixtured Brazilian Families

Jinjie Duan | Cross-Disorder Rare Variant Analysis of Autism and Adhd

Rodrigo R R Duarte | Human Endogenous Retroviruses and Long Interspersed Nuclear Elements-1 Linked to Major Psychiatric Conditions

Eleni Friligkou | Gene Discovery and Biological Insights into Anxiety Disorders from a Multi-Ancestry Genome-Wide Association Study of >1.2 Million Participants

Nicholas Green | Integrated Single-Cell Multiomic Profiling of Caudate Nucleus Suggests Key Mechanisms in Alcohol Use Disorde

Yixuan He | Genetic Architecture and Polygenic Prediction of Alcohol Use Disorder in Nepal

Itunuoluwa Isewon | The Psychiatric Genomics Africa Portal (PsychGen-Africa)

Philippe Jawinski | Genome-wide analysis of brain age identifies 59 associated loci and unveils relationships with mental and physical health

Michelle Kamp | The sociodemographic, clinical, and Genetic Predictors of Self-Reported Antidepressant Response in Uk Biobank

Kalyani Karunakaran | Spatiotemporal Expression Patterns Dissociating Depressive from Anxiety Disorders

Engin Keser | Polygenic Scores for Psychiatric Disorders Predict Quantitative Symptom Scores in the Population Largely Due to the Pervasive Genetic Influence of General Psychopathology (p)

Yundan Liao | Integrating Multi-Omics Data to Decode the Heterogeneity in Antidepressant Respons

Bochao Lin | Gene-Environment Interaction Study on the Correlates for Psychotic Experiences in the UK Biobank

Mia Lombard | Maternal Psychological Distress and Newborn DNA Methylation in a South African Birth Cohort Study

Jose Martinez-Magana | Local Ancestry-Aware Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies for Alcohol Consumption in Latin American Populations

Marla Mendes de Aquino | Characterizing the Genetic Architecture of Autism from a Multi-Ancestry Perspective

Nadine Parker | Leveraging the Genetics of Major Psychiatric Disorders to Prioritize Potential Drug Therapies and Targets

Pradip Paul | Assessment of Cellular Health on Ethanol-Induced Toxicity in Human Neural Precursor Cells

Mackenzie Rubens | Longitudinal Biopsychosocial Markers of Posttraumatic Outcomes in a Diverse Group of Emergency Responder

Niamh Ryan | Investigating the Impact of Dark Regions of the Genome on Genomic Research for Psychiatric Illness

Kosar Teymouri | Complement Component 4 Has a Sex- And Ethnicity-Dependent Association with Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia and Number of hospitalizations, but Not Alcohol Abuse

Ellen Tsai | Genome-Wide Association Analysis of an in Silico Phenotype Sourced from Clinical notes: The Addiction Behavior Checklist

Justin Tubbs | Real-time polygenic prediction for streaming data: Application to schizophrenia and quantitative traits

Emil Uffelmann | Multi-Ancestry Genome-Wide Association Study of Alzheimer's Disease

2024 Early Career Investigator Program - Poster Presentation Finalists

Zuriel Ceja | Genetic and Psychological Predictors of Suicidal Behavior: Insights from Polygenic Risk Scores and Mental Health Diagnoses

Helena Davies | Identifying Diseases Associated with the Genetics of Anorexia Nervosa and Binge Eating in the UK Biobank

Rodrigo R R Duarte | Human Endogenous Retroviruses and Long Interspersed Nuclear Elements-1 Linked to Major Psychiatric Conditions

Hayley French | Searching for Schizophrenia Biology: Overlap Analysis of Cell Type-Specific Phenotypes in Copy Number Variant Mouse Models

Lillian Linda | Exploring the Genetic Underpinnings of Major Depressive Disorder Among Participants of the Uganda Genome Resource

Shishi Min | Whole-Genome DNA Methylation Sequencing in Blood Identifies Differential Methylation in Parkinson’s Disease in the Chinese Han Population

Shoat Mizuno | De Novo Promoter Variants Contribute to Autism Spectrum Disorder Risk via Topologically Associating Domains

Sowmya Narayan | Characterizing Sex-Specific Effects of Early Life Adversity on the Adulthood Brain Transcriptome Using a Translational Mouse Model

Pranshu Sachdeva | Assessing the Impact of genomic Copy Number Variants on Bipolar Disorder and Obsessive - Compulsive Disorder in the Indian Population

Ying Xiong | Psychiatric and Cardiometabolic Comorbidities of Treatment-Resistant Depression