ISPG 2025 World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics - Submissions

The International Society of Psychiatric Genetics (ISPG) warmly invites you to attend the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics (WCPG), October 19-23, 2025 in Cancun, Mexico. We are excited to bring our community together in a country with a stunning history and a vibrant, growing scientific ecosystem. In light of the challenges many in our community are facing, we invite you to find support within the ISPG network and reconnect with the excitement of scientific discovery as we explore the latest advancements in our field. 

This year’s WCPG theme is “Dimensions of Translation.” We hope this theme will be interpreted broadly as translation can occur in many domains from clinical implications to animal models. Importantly, this theme also underscores our commitment to understanding the vast spectrum of psychiatric genetic research across different populations and cultures, in supporting excellence in research throughout the world and ensuring findings in psychiatric genetics benefit everyone. We are encouraging symposium submissions that interpret this theme creatively and highlight the most cutting edge and impactful dimension of translation in our field. 

We are keeping a close eye on developments with NIH and are committed to doing what we can to minimize the effects of those changes on our meeting and membership. We look forward to welcoming you to WCPG 2025 in Cancun, Mexico! 

2025 WCPG Program Chairs,

Dr. Henriette “Jetty” Raventos

Dr. Lea Davis

Dr. Andrew McIntosh

Dr. Diego Luiz Rovaris

Dr. Humberto Nicolini

SUBMISSION DEADLINES 
The following submission types will be accepted: 

Symposia Presentation 
Deadline: April 16, 2025 (chairs) and April 23, 2025 (participants) - OPEN
A symposium is a 1½ hour session with a maximum of 7 participants. Each submission must include 1 chair, 1 co-chair, 4 speakers, and 1 formal discussant. The discussant may not be a speaker.  The chair and co-chair may be a speaker on the panel. An individual can only participate (includes all roles) in a maximum of two (2) symposia. Chairs should have their overall abstract and list of participants entered by April 16, 2025. Participants must have individual abstracts and disclosures entered by April 23, 2025.

Oral and Poster Presentation
Deadline: June 5, 2025 - OPEN
When submitting, you may choose if you would like your abstract considered for both oral presentation and poster presentation or one of the two options.  Oral presentations are 10 minutes in length followed by 5 minutes of discussion. Please note the number of oral presentations accepted is limited.

Early Career Investigator Award Application
Deadline: June 5, 2025 - OPEN
Early career investigator is an individual who is an undergraduate student, graduate student, medical student, post-doctoral researcher, or less than five years out of a doctoral program in a field relevant to psychiatric genetics. Individuals will need to submit an ECIP application along with a scientific session abstract, such as oral, poster or symposia presentation abstract submission. Only one application will be accepted per person. Past ECIP travel award recipients are not eligible to receive the award again.   However, you can participate in the oral and poster finalist program that will be judged onsite.  Details are on the ECIP Programming Information site.

Honorific Award Nominations 
Deadline: June 5, 2025 - OPENING SOON
Nominations will open soon for the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics Honorific Awards.  The available awards are the Ming Tsuang Lifetime Achievement Award, the Theodore Reich Early Career Award, the Richard Todd Award and the Gershon Paper of the Year Award. Click here for a full description of these Awards.

Click Here for: WCPG 2025 Abstract Categories 

Click Here for: WCPG 2025 Call for Proposals

*Deadlines are 11:59 PM US-Eastern Time. Staff assistance ends at 5:00 p.m. US-Eastern Time. 

*All Accepted Oral/Poster presenters must register by the Speaker Registration Deadline for the Congress by July 17, 2025.*