One Mind Rising Star Awardees

Dr. Laura Berner

2025 One Mind Board of Directors Rising Star Award

Understanding and Targeting Self-Regulatory Control in Bulimia Nervosa via a Combined Real-Time Neurofeedback and Smartphone Intervention. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Dr. Neir Eshel

2025 One Mind-Burroughs Wellcome Fund Rising Star Award

Striatal Circuits and the Value of Effort in Health and Disease. Stanford University.

Dr. Annegret Falkner

2025 One Mind Rising Star Award

Precision Circuit-Targeted Hormone Therapies for Mood Disorders. Princeton University.

Dr. A. Moses Lee

2025 One Mind-Burroughs Wellcome Fund Rising Star Award

Towards Closed-Loop Neuromodulation to Treat Severe, Refractory OCD. University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

Dr. Edward Twomey

2025 One Mind-Bristol Myers Squibb Rising Star Award

GluD1 as an Ion Channel: New Foundations for Targeting Psychiatric Disorders. Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Ishmail Abdus-Saboor

2024 One Mind-Kicking the Stigma Rising Star Award

Activating Neurons in the Skin to Relieve Symptoms of Chronic Stress. Columbia University.

Dr. Talia Lerner

2024 One Mind-Bristol Myers Squibb Rising Star Award

Understanding Stress Hormone Regulation of Dopamine Function to Treat Depression. Northwestern University.

Dr. Hilary Marusak

2024 One Mind-Miñana/Lovelace Rising Star Award

Understanding Adolescent Suicide Risk: Investigating the Role of the Endocannabinoid System. Wayne State University.

Dr. Claudia Lugo-Candelas

2023 One Mind-Luther Family Rising Star Award

Prenatal Sleep Health: An Untapped Intervention Target for the Intergenerational Prevention of Mood and Anxiety Disorders. Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

Dr. Ignacio Saez

2023 One Mind-Russ and Stephanie Deyo Rising Star Award

Computational Psychiatry for Patient-Tailored Stimulation Treatment of Depression. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Dr. Arpiar Saunders

2023 One Mind-Ben Langford and Nicholas Hall Rising Star Award

Discovering How Schizophrenia-Associated Genes Alter the Brains’ Synaptic Organization Using High-Throughput Viral Genomic Imaging. Oregon Health & Science University.

Dr. Xin Jin

2022 One Mind COMPASS Pathways Rising Star Award

Seeing the Perturbations: in Vivo Genetic Screening Approaches to Psychiatric Disorders. Scripps Research Institute.

Dr. Alex Kwan

2022 One Mind COMPASS Pathways Rising Star Award

The Cortical Circuit Basis of Fast-Acting Antidepressant Action. Cornell University.

Dr. Maryam Shanechi

2022 One Mind COMPASS Pathways Rising Star Award

Deep Learning of Brain Network Biomarkers for Neuropsychiatric Disorders. University of Southern California.

Dr. Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy

2021 One Mind Nick LeDeit Rising Star Research Award

Neuroplasticity Mechanisms of Resilience. Northwestern University.

Dr. Devanand Manoli

2021 One Mind Janssen Translational Rising Star Award in Memory of Jeffrey S. Nye, MD, PhD

Sensory and Neural Mechanisms Underlying Social Attachment. University of California San Francisco.

Dr. Renato Polimanti

2021 One Mind Rising Star Computational Psychiatry Research Award

Integrating Trait-Specific Design and Multi-Omics Information to Increase the Portability of Polygenic Risk Scoring Across Internalizing Disorders. Yale School of Medicine.

Dr. Sarah Stern

2021 One Mind Donna Friedman Rising Star Eating Disorders Research Award

Insular Cortex Circuits Underlying Maladaptive Feeding Behaviors. Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience.

Dr. Kevin T. Beier

2020 One Mind Janssen Rising Star Award in Memory of Jeffrey S. Nye

Identifying Biomarkers to Aid Early Detection and Personalized Therapeutics. University of California, Irvine.

Dr. Greg Fonzo

2020 One Mind Baszucki Brain Research Fund Rising Star Award

Targeting Neural Structures in the Amygdala to Treat Mood Disorders. University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School.

Dr. Denise Cai

2019 One Mind Otsuka Rising Star Research Award

Temporal Memory-Linking: A Circuit Mechanism of PTSD. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Dr. Jennifer M. Coughlin

2019 One Mind Gifford Foundation Rising Star Schizophrenia Research Award

Transdiagnostic Imaging of the α7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor in Recent-Onset Psychosis. Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Stephan Lammel

2019 One Mind Janssen Rising Star Translational Research Award

Decoding Multiple Dimensions of Dopamine Signaling for Impulse Control. University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Laura Lewis

2019 One Mind Bettina Bryant Rising Star Depression Research Award

Identifying Intersecting Network Dynamics Underlying Sleep and Mood in Depression. Boston University.

Dr. Carl Sellgren-Majkowitz

2019 One Mind Kaiser Permanente Rising Star Collaborative Research Award

Targeting the Rewiring of the Connectome in Adolescence to Prevent Schizophrenia. Karolinska Institutet.

Dr. Susanne Ahmari

2018 One Mind Janssen Rising Star Translational Research Award in Honor of the Late Jeffrey S. Nye, M.D., Ph.D.

Identify Novel Molecular Targets for OCD. University of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Erin Dunn

2018 One Mind Peter Chiarelli Rising Star Collaborative Research Award

Understanding Why Childhood Stress is a Major Risk Factor for Depression in Adolescents and Young Adults. Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Paul Jenkins

2018 One Mind Rising Star Bipolar Disorder Translational Research Award

Therapeutic Modulation of ANK3 Dependent GABAergic Circuitry. University of Michigan.

Dr. Ian Maze

2017 Rising Star Early Diagnostics Basic Research Award

Predicting Depression Risk and Treatment Response Through Blood Chemistry. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Dr. Alik S. Widge

2017 One Mind Janssen Rising Star Translational Research Award in Memory of Jeffrey S. Nye M.D., Ph.D.

Engineering Brain Circuits to Improve Mental Flexibility. University of Minnesota.

Dr. Kate Fitzgerald

2016 One Mind AIM for Mental Health Rising Star Research Award

Effortful Control of Training: A Brain-Targeted Intervention for Clinically Anxious Preschoolers. Columbia University.

Dr. Mazen Kheirbek

2016 One Mind Janssen Rising Star Translational Research Award

Illuminating Circuit Based Targets for Treatment of Depression. University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Mary Kay Lobo

2016 One Mind Janssen Rising Star Translational Research Award

Stabilizing Neuronal Architecture for Depression Therapeutics. University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Dr. Conor Liston

2015 One Mind Janssen Rising Star Translational Research Award

Neurobiologically Distinguishing Depression Subtypes. Weill Cornell Medical College.

Dr. Katie McLaughlin

2015 One Mind AIM Rising Star Award

Understanding How Stress Causes Anxiety and Depression in Youth. Harvard University.

Dr. Jean-Martin Beaulieu

2014 One Mind Johnson & Johnson Rising Star Translational Research Award

Developing Potentially Safer Bipolar Disorder Treatments. University of Toronto.

Dr. Stephanie Dulawa

2014 One Mind Rising Star Depression Award in Memory of George Largay

Developing Faster-Onset Antidepressants. University of California, San Diego.

Dr. Philip Corlett

2013 One Mind Janssen Rising Star Translational Research Award

Potassium Channels and Prediction Error: Targeting Schizophrenia with Retigabine. Yale University.

Dr. Kafui Dzirasa

2013 One Mind Janssen Rising Star Translational Research Award

Closed Loop Actuators to Repair Brain Circuit Dysfunction. Duke University.

Dr. Colleen McClung

2012 One Mind Johnson & Johnson Rising Star Translational Research Award

Investigating Specific HDAC Gene Inhibition as a Novel Bipolar Disorder Treatment. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Dr. Scott Russo

2012 One Mind Johnson & Johnson Rising Star Translational Research Award

Investigating the Anti-Depressant Efficacy of Anti-Inflammatory Medications. Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Dr. Ming-Hu Han

2011 One Mind Johnson & Johnson Rising Star Translational Research Award

Understanding Stress Resilience to Remedy Depression. Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Dr. Jun Li

2011 One Mind Johnson & Johnson Rising Star Translational Research Award

Seeking Out High-Risk Bipolar Disorder Candidate Genes. University of Michigan.

Dr. Lisa Monteggia

2011 One Mind Rising Star Basic Research Award

Reverse-Engineering the Rapid Antidepressant Effect of Ketamine. Vanderbilt.

Dr. Olivier Berton

2010 One Mind Rising Star Award

Evaluating How to Use Stress-Governing Proteins to Diagnose, Treat or Prevent Affective Disorders. University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Dr. Joshua Gordon

2010 One Mind Rising Star Award

Investigating the Circuit Basis for Psychiatric Diseases. Columbia University.

Dr. Herman Wolosker

2010 One Mind Rising Star Award

Rebalancing a Novel Neurotransmitter to Treat Schizophrenia. Technion Institute, Israel.

Dr. Francis Lee

2009 One Mind Rising Star Award

Investigating the Role of a Growth Factor Deficiency in Affective Disorders. Weill Cornell Medical College.

Dr. Andrew Pieper

2009 One Mind Rising Star Award

Developing Potential Therapies for Schizophrenia and Neurodegenerative Diseases. University of Iowa.

Dr. Hongjun Song

2009 One Mind Rising Star Award

Understanding a Schizophrenia Susceptibility Gene’s Effect on Neural Growth. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

One Mind Bipolar Research Awards

In 2020, with additional financial support from the Baszucki Brain Research Fund, One Mind honored five individuals with the One Mind Bipolar Research Awards for their work in advancing the understanding and treatment of bipolar disorder. Selected with the assistance and recommendations of the One Mind Scientific Advisory Board, which includes leading brain scientists, noted for their pioneering research in their respective fields, each of the five recipients received $20,000.

Awardees include: 

• Paulo Lizano, PhD, MD, instructor, Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
• Hirofumi Morishita, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City
• Ivy F. Tso, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School
• Alexander Urban, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Psychiatry and Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine
• Nolan Williams, MD, assistant professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and director, Stanford Brain Stimulation Lab