2024 Early Career
Investigator Program
Award Recipients
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 Winners
Michael Cudic | Polygenic Scores across Environmental Contexts: How Intersectionality Affects Predictive Accuracy for Psychiatric Conditions
Nadine Parker | Leveraging the Genetics of Major Psychiatric Disorders to Prioritize Potential Drug Therapies and Targets
Marijn Schipper | FLAMES: Accurate Causal Gene Prioritization in Psychiatric Gwas Loci
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
2024 Early Career Investigator Program - Oral Presentation Winners
Juan De la Hoz| Genetic Characterization of Clinical Trajectories in Major Depressive Disorder
Philippe Jawinski | Genome-Wide Analysis of Brain Age Identifies 59 Associated Loci and Unveils Relationships with Mental and Physical Health
Lerato Majara | Genome-Wide Association Study of Schizophrenia in the Neuropsychiatric Genetics in African Population-Psychosis (NeuroGAP-Psychosis) Study.
2024 Early Career Investigator Program - Oral Presentation Finalists
Richard Dear | Schizophrenia Genetic Risk and Cell-Specific Differential Expression are Linked to Gene Regulatory Networks for Cell Maturation That Pattern the Transcriptional Architecture of the Human Cortex
Nicholas Green | Integrated Single-Cell Multiomic Profiling of Caudate Nucleus Suggests Key Mechanisms in Alcohol Use Disorder
Cong Han | Genetic Regulation of the Gene Expression in Fetal and Adult Brains Explains Gwas Signals from the East Asian Population
Sonja LaBianca | Period and Age Effects in the Genetic Etiology of Adhd and Asd
Calwing Liao |Rare Coding Variation across 149,356 Individuals Identifies over 20 Novel Genes Associated with Bipolar Disorder
Brittany Mitchell | Genome-Wide Association Meta-Analyses of Panic Disorder and Panic Attacks in > 277,970 Individuals Identifies First Genetic Risk Loci
Ajay Nadig | How Much Do Rare De Novo Variants Contribute to Autism?
Carina Seah | Stress Exposure Dynamically Regulates Eqtl Activity in the Post-Mortem Brain and in Hipsc-Derived Neurons
Julia Sealock | Advancing Schizophrenia Gene Discovery through Rare Variant Association Using over 152,000 Diverse Samples