The Ming Tsuang Lifetime Achievement Award is given to a distinguished senior scientist who has made significant and sustained contributions to the advancement of the field of psychiatric genetics. Candidates are required to be current members of ISPG and may self-nominate or be nominated by a current member of ISPG.

At the time of submission, nominators must provide a rationale for nomination, including a brief two-page description of the nominee’s contributions to the advancement of the field of psychiatric genetics and a current, detailed CV of the nominee with a maximum of ten publications with descriptions and not to exceed four pages. Unsuccessful submissions will be rolled over for two consecutive years.

Submissions are reviewed by the ISPG Membership Committee. The Awardee is invited to present in the Awards plenary session at the Annual World Congress and will receive a trophy award, $1,500 travel stipend for the year they are honored, and waived WCPG registration for life.

Theodore Reich Early Career Award

The Theodore Reich Early Career Award is given for published work on psychiatric genetics that is of exceptional merit. Candidates must be members who have completed their formal training (i.e., terminal degree, post-PhD fellowship or post-doctoral fellowship, medical residency, or other specialized training) within the past ten years. ISPG members may self-nominate or nominate a colleague.

At the time of submission, nominees must provide a brief description of their scientific work/achievement and a current, detailed CV with a maximum of five publications with descriptions and not to exceed four pages. Eligible unsuccessful submissions will be rolled over for two consecutive years.

Submissions are reviewed by the ISPG Membership Committee. The Awardee is invited to present in the Awards plenary session at the Annual World Congress and will receive a trophy award.

Gershon Paper of the Year Award

The Gershon Paper of the Year Award is given to a paper, which has been published and reported on an outstanding achievement in the field of psychiatric genetics in the past year (June, of previous year to the deadline for the award submissions). The nominator and nominee(s) must be a member of the Society. The first author(s) will receive a trophy at the Annual World Congress.

Submissions are reviewed by the ISPG Membership Committee. At the time of submission, nominators must provide the full citation of the paper and a brief paragraph about the main achievement of the publication.

Richard Todd Award – Genetics of Child Psychiatry

The Richard Todd Award is given to a researcher for an outstanding contribution to the genetics of child psychiatry.

At the time of submission, nominees must provide a brief description of their scientific work/achievement and a current, detailed CV with a maximum of five publications with descriptions and not to exceed four pages.

The recipient is selected by the Membership Committee. The Awardee will receive a trophy at the Annual World Congress.

Hugh Gurling Memorial Award

The Hugh Gurling Award is given to an investigator from a non-Group A World Bank country, and who resides in such a country at the time of the meeting, for an oral or poster presentation at the WCPG. Finalists selected by the Awards Committee from submitted abstracts will be judged at the WCPG by selected members of the society. The Hugh Gurling Awardee will be announced at the Closing Remarks of the WCPG.

The awardee is invited to submit a manuscript on the presented work to the Society’s nominated journal.

Lifetime Achievement Award Winners

1993: Seymour S. Kety and George Winokur
1995: Ming T. Tsuang
1997: Irving I. Gottesman
1999: Theodore Reich
2001: Michael Conneally
2002: Jules Angst and Nikki Erlenmeyer-Kimling
2003: C. Robert Cloninger
2004: Peter Propping
2005: NONE
2006: Elliot S. Gershon
2007: Peter McGuffin
2008: Jurg Ott.
2010: Susan E. Folstein
2011: Kenneth Kendler
2012: Raymond Crowe
2013: John Nurnberger
2014: Margaret Pericak-Vance
2015: Michael Owen
2016: J. Raymond DePaulo, Jr.
2017: Pamela Sklar and Marcella Rietschel
2018: Stephen Faraone
2019: Patrick F. Sullivan
2020: Lynn DeLisi and Michael O'Donovan
2021: Naomi Wray
2022: Dorret Boomsma & Nick Martin
2023: Cynthia Bulik

Theodore Reich Award Winners

2004: Carol Prescott
2005: Laura Almasy and Nigel Williams
2006: Thomas G. Schulze
2007: Alexander B. Niculescu III
2008: Shaun Purcell
2009: Jonathan Sebat
2010: Elisabeth B. Binder
2011: David Glahn
2012: Danielle Dick
2013: Stephan Ripke
2014: Benjamin Neale
2015: Sarah Medland
2016: Menachem Fromer
2017: Jonathan Mill
2018: Arpana Agrawal
2019: Stephan Sanders
2020: Michael Gandal
2021: Sergiu Pasca
2022: Lea Davis
2023: Laura Huckins

Richard Todd Award Winners

2009: Jonathan Sebat
2010: Joseph D. Buxbaum
2011: Danielle Dick
2012: Anke Hinney
2013: Geert Poelmans
2014: Nadine Provencal
2015: Christie Burton
2016: Joseph Buxbaum
2017: Danielle Posthuma
2018: F. Kyle Satterstrom
2019: Ditte Demontis
2020: Leanna Hernandez
2021: Marieke Klein
2022: Brett Trost
2023: Christel Middeldorp

Elliot Gershon Paper of the Year Award Winners

2014: Thomas W. Muhleisen
2015: Michael O'Donovan and Stephan Ripke
2016: Liping Hou, Urs Heilbronner and Franziska Degenhardt
2017: Chi-Hua Chen
2018: Verneri Anttila
2019: Chia-Yen Chen & Max Lam
2020: Niamh Mullins
2021: Orna Issler
2022: Varun Warrier
Antonio Pardinas, Vassily Trubetskoy
2023: Alexander Hatoum