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Three IMHRO Rising Stars Selected for 2010

Friday, August 13, 2010

Our scientific advisory board, chaired by Dr. Eric Nestler, has just completed the difficult selection process of this year's three IMHRO Rising Star award winners. The winners are:

  1. Olivier Berton, Penn,  “Evaluation of HDAC6 as a resilience biomarker and a new therapeutic target for antidepressants”
  2. Joshua Gordon, Columbia, “Systems neurophysiology in genetically modified mice: dissecting the role of the hippocampal-prefrontal circuit in psychiatric disorders”
  3. Herman Wolosker, Technion Institute, Israel, “Novel strategies to ameliorate NMDA receptor hypofunction in schizophrenia: Focus on Dserine Homeostasis”

Please check our sponsored scientists page soon for news about these scientists and their exciting research proposals.

 

Johnson & Johnson and IMHRO Announce 2 New Joint Rising Star Awards

In June, International Mental Health Research Organization (IMHRO) announced a collaboration with the Johnson & Johnson Corporate Office of Science and Technology (COSAT). Under the terms of this collaboration, COSAT will provide a $250,000 grant towards the funding of IMHRO's Rising Star Awards. COSAT's grant will be matched by IMHRO to establish the COSAT-IMHRO Rising Star Awards Program, which, in 2010, will fund two Rising Star Awards.

The objective of the COSAT-IMHRO Rising Star Awards Program is to advance the understanding of underlying disease mechanisms in bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and major depression with great potential to benefit patients and the healthcare system. The Program is also intended to advance the translation of discoveries from basic science research into therapies for major psychiatric diseases.

The COSAT-IMHRO Rising Star Awards Program expresses IMHRO and Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development's common vision of transforming individual lives affected by neuropsychiatric illnesses before devastation occurs. It is our hope that this collaboration will fund research of key scientists and may bring us closer than ever to helping find the causes and cures for mental illness.

 

New Staglin Neuroscience Center at UCLA Will Investigate How Brain Supports Mind


Dr. Tyrone Cannon
Dr. Tyrone Cannon, Director of the new Staglin Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
photo: UCLA


The Staglin IMHRO Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at UCLA will bring together faculty across many disciplines to investigate how the brain supports the mind. When the center officially opens its doors in July, psychologists, biologists, physicists, mathematicians, and engineers will collaborate here in the quest for better therapies for brain disorders.

Director Dr. Ty Cannon says, "We want to develop preventive and therapeutic approaches to reduce human suffering. We need to cut across the traditional boundaries to achieve that. This center will allow faculty to come together, think about problems together, design studies together, and pursue funding together in a way that they otherwise would not."


"We are trying to understand how the brain goes awry in people who have mental disorders,” Cannon says. “We are trying to understand how the structure of the brain relates to the mind in healthy people and all of the ways those processes can go awry. Our new center is aimed right at that intersection. By understanding those connections, we hope to develop therapeutic approaches that can help people."


Read UCLA Today's full article

 

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Features IMHRO in its Qualified Charity Database

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Philanthropic Services has developed a database for the purpose of "matching" potential donors and prospective board members with nonprofit organizations.  Morgan Stanley Smith Barney’s grant-making clients have access to this database of qualified nonprofit organizations in the U.S., which they can use to identify the missions of various charities and get information on how to make grants to them.  IMHRO has now been included in their database of qualified nonprofit organizations.  Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Philanthropic Services is also showing their support for IMHRO by including an article written by Garen Staglin in their Spring newsletter, “Perspectives in Philanthropy.”

 

The Staglins and Staglin Family Vineyard Receive Mental Health Advocacy Award

On April 7, 2010, Dr. Tom Insel presented IMHRO co-founders Shari and Garen Staglin of Staglin Family Vineyard with a Mental Health Advocacy Award, on behalf of the Oregon Health and Science University Neuropsychiatric Institute, ChristieCare, The Flawless Foundation, and NAMI Oregon. This award recognizes their contribution to mental health research, treatment and recovery. "This award took us by surprise!" says Shari. "We feel honored to be recognized for doing something we love to do!"
 
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