2025 Early Career Investigator Program Award Recipients
Early Career Investigator Program Award Recipients
| Sarasadat Aghabozorgafjeh | Transcriptomic Pathway Alterations Underlying Sex-Differentiated Age of Onset in Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia |
| Jared Balbona | Sex-Specific Genetic Effects in Substance Use Disorders: A Multi-Ancestral Sex-Stratified Gwas Meta-Analysis of over 2.2 Million Individuals |
| Laísa Camerini | Genetic Susceptibility to Hair Cortisol Concentration and Its Role on Interacting with Early-Life Adversity in a 15-Year Longitudinal Study from the 2004 Pelotas (Brazil) Birth Cohort |
| Haidy Giratallah | Genetically Faster CYP2A6-Mediated Nicotine Metabolism Increases Smoking-Related Disease Risk: A Phenome-Wide Association Study in the All of Us Research Program |
| Djenifer B. Kappel | Genetic Liability to Physical Health Conditions and Comorbidities in Individuals with Severe Mental Illness |
| Yousef Khan | Transdiagnostic and Disorder-Level GWAS Enhance Precision of Substance Use and Psychiatric Genetic Risk Profiles in African- And European-Ancestry-Like Individuals |
| Benson Ku | Cluster Profiles of Distressing Psychotic-Like Experiences among Children and Associations with Genetic risk, Prenatal Cannabis exposure, and Social-Environmental Characteristics |
| Mannan Luo | Evidence for Genetic Nurture Effects on Substance Use |
| Lauren Martin | Exploring Maternal Salivary DNA Methylation Patterns in the Context of Alcohol Use and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders |
| Jessica McAfee | Massively Parallel Reporter Assay investigates shared Genetic Variants of Eight psychiatric disorders |
| Shota Mizuno | The Role of Topologically Associating Domains in Defining the Pathogenic Relevance of de novo Non-Coding Variants on Autism Spectrum Disorder Risk |
| Isaac Okello | Predictors of Internalising Mental Disorders among Ugandan Children and Adolescents Living with HIV: A Machine Learning Approach. |
Oral ECIP Finalist
| Eva Beins | The Influence of Genetic Risk for Depression and Glucocorticoid Stress on Transcriptome and Secretome Profiles of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Microglia |
| Nicole Bussola | Mapping Immune Crosstalk Between Blood and Brain at Single-Cell Resolution |
| Suzannah De Almeida | Cross-Ancestral Gene-Target Prioritization for Opioid Use Disorder |
| Ley Lacbawan | Effects of Mood Stabilizing Drugs in Cell Villages of Human iPSC-derived Cortical Neurons |
| Hyunah Lee | Long-Read Whole Genome Sequencing of 4,000 Individuals with Eating Disorders: Early Insights from the NIHR BioResource Initiative |
| Yinuo Ma | Genetic Regulation of Human Brain RNA Editing in East Asian |
| Lerato Majara | Genome Wide Association Study of Psychosis Identifies African Enriched Variants in PTPRD and TMEM150C |
| Anil Ori | The White Norm in Human Genetic Research |
| Miryam Schattner | Phenotypic Signatures at the Extremes of Polygenic Scores for Psychiatric disorders: A Glad Study |
| Megan Skelton | Genome-Wide Insights into Anxiety Using a Dimensional Symptom Severity Approach |
| Priyadarshini Thirunavukkarasu | Long-Read Sequencing Analysis of Structural Variants in Large Multigenerational Families with Bipolar Disorder |
Oral Hugh Gurling Finalist
| Sintia Belangero | A Meta-Analysis of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: Bridging the Gap and Learning with Latin American Cohorts |
| Nicolas Ciochetti | Ancestry-Aware Genome Wide Association Study of Attention - Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in a Latin American Population |
| Pedro Destro | Interaction Between Substance Use and SNVs in the Emergence of Psychiatric Disorders |
| Yinuo Ma | Genetic Regulation of Human Brain RNA Editing in East Asian |
| Rafaella Ormond | Mapping the Genetic Architecture of Smoking Behavior in Latin American Populations |
| Kristien van der Walt | Shared Genetic Variants between Objectively-Measured Movement and Brain Disorders Probe Sensorimotor Mechanisms |
| Beatriz Villena-Rueda | Toward a Single-Cell Atlas of Traumatic Brain Injury: Investigating Cell-Type-Specific Mechanisms Relevant to Psychiatric Disorders |
Poster ECIP Finalist
| Uri Bright | Differences and Similarities between the Genetic Architecture of Lifetime Substance Use across Different Substances |
| Nicholas Green | From Genetic Risk to Mechanism: Identifying Genes Underlying Addiction Risk Across Substances via Cell Type-Specific Transcriptome-Wide Association Analysis |
| Robert Havkin | Genetic and Phenotypic Characterization of Autism with Individual/Parental History of Co-Occurring Schizophrenia or Bipolar Disorder |
| Lianyun Huang | Disentangling the genetic heterogeneity of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) |
| Clara Köhler | Resilience and Its Impact on Epigenetic Aging: Insights from Cumulative Environmental Risk Analysis |
| Alex Kwong | Transancestry Genome-Wide Association Study of Adolescent-Onset Depression |
| Ang Li | Benchmarking Methods Integrating Gwas and Single-Cell Transcriptomic Data for Mapping Trait-Cell Type Associations |
| Shota Mizuno | The Role of Topologically Associating Domains in Defining the Pathogenic Relevance of de novo Non-Coding Variants on Autism Spectrum Disorder Risk |
| Shane O'Connell | Deriving Mendelian Randomization-Based Causal Networks of Brain Imaging Phenotypes and Bipolar Disorder |
| Pravesh Parekh | FEMA-Long: a framework for longitudinal genome-wide association studies to discover time-dependent genetic effects |
| Steven Prado Jara | Allele Frequency Variation of Association Signals for Psychiatric Disorders in Latin American Populations |
| Simran Sandhu | Spotlighting Women’s Health: Exploring the Biological Liability to Migraine and Anxiety in Women |
| Ofure Ubah | Investigating Risk Variants of the SLC6A15 Gene by Use of Enhancer Screening Assay and Cellular MODELS. |