Samuel Gershon Awards for Junior Investigators
The ISBD continues to prioritize support of the education of trainees and young investigators through a series of awards that are currently becoming available. The presentation of the Samuel Gershon Awards for Junior Investigators, now in its third year, will be taking place in June of 2009.
The Samuel Gershon Awards, named in honor of the past ISBD President and pioneering lithium researcher, are 4 awards for unpublished original research papers submitted by junior investigators and offer a travel grant to present the award winning work either in poster or oral presentations at ISBD biennial and affiliated meetings. The submission deadline for the program has now closed, and the winning candidates will submit their papers for poster presentation at the 8th International Conference on Bipolar Disorder (ICBD) in Pittsburgh from 25-27 June 2009.
Congratulations to Past Winners of the
Samuel Gershon Awards for Junior Investigators
- 2008
- 2006
Dr. Benjamin I. Goldstein MD, from the Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. His innovative work focused on substance use disorders among adolescents with bipolar spectrum disorders.
Dr. Morgan Haldane, MB, BS, BSc, MRCPsych, Section of Neurobiology of Psychosis, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom, for his research on the impact of COMT VAL158MET genotype on neural correlates of facial affect recognition in bipolar disorder patients and unaffected siblings.
Dr. Carlos Lopez, MD, MSc, from the Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Universidad De Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia, for his work entitled ‘Effect of chronicity on the cognitive performance of patients with bipolar disorder type 1’.
Dr. Samir Kumar Praharaj, MBBS, MD, DPM, from the Central Institute of Psychiatry, Kanke, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, who explored cerebral blood flow changes and efficacy of rapid suprathreshold repetitive trans-cranial magnetic stimulation of right prefrontal cortex in bipolar mania.
Dr. Carrie Bearden, PhD - University of California, Los Angeles - Los Angeles, CA, USA
Manuscript: Evidence for Disruption in Prefrontal Cortical Functions in Juvenile Bipolar
Disorder
Dr. Marcia Kauer-Sant’Anna, MD - University of British Columbia - Vancouver, BC, Canada
Manuscript: Traumatic Life Events in Bipolar Disorder:
Impact on BDNF Levels and Psychopathology
Dr. Benicio Frey, MD, MSc - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Manuscript: Abnormal cellular energy and phospholipid metabolism in the left dorsolateral prefrontal
cortex of medication-free individuals with bipolar disorder: an in vivo 1H MRS study
Dr. Vesile Senturk, MD - Ankara University Psychiatry Dikimevi - Ankara, Turkey
Manuscript: Impaired verbal memory and otherwise spared cognition in remitted
bipolar patients on monotherapy with lithium or valproate