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Thanks to all who participated in this year’s Psychiatry Research Extravaganza! It was a great success and with a lot of fantastic science presented. The results for both our Traditional poster competition and the People’s Choice competition are in.
Dr. John M Davis is professor of psychiatry at the University of IL at Chicago. He began his career as a clinical associate at NIH, and, with William Bunney, reviewed evidence that biogenic amines may be decreased in depression, which was published one month after Dr. Schildkraut’s seminal paper. Dr.
ACCESS for Mental Health Lab members collaborate with the Chicago Parks District (CPD) for another staff wellness event, this time in the Osaka Garden, where Melanie Tran, MA, Elyse Shenberger, PhD, Margarete Wallner, MD, and Tara Mehta, PhD, led a guided mindfulness walk for CPD staff focused on teaching everyday skills for mental hea
Dr. Subhash Pandey, and his interdisciplinary team which includes faculty from the departments of psychiatry, physiology and biophysics from the COM, the UIC research resource center facilities (RRC Bioinformatics) and the departments of biological sciences and psychology (UIC-college of liberal arts and science), and the Roy J Carver Biotechnology Center-UIUC, received an award for a P50 Center Grant from the NIH. This is one of the few Center grants funded by the NIH at UIC and brings a lot of recognition and prestige to the UIC.
Anna Patterson, a third-year student in the Graduate Program in Neuroscience and fifth-year MD/PhD candidate, has been awarded an F30 fellowship from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for her project, “Ovarian Steroid Mechanisms of Female Cannabis Use: Longitudinal and Experimental Models.” Under the mentorship of Dr.
Dr. Colleen Stiles-Shields was awarded the "Rising Star Award" by the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII). The award was presented to her at the ISRII Annual Conference in San Diego, CA, in early August 2025.