Several researchers from the Center for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Research have recently received awards and fellowships.
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Kreshnik Burani received a Joseph and Susan Gatto Foundation Award for Excellence in Imaging, Psychiatric Disorders or Drug Abuse Research, for his project entitled The Mechanistic Role of Reward Prediction Errors and Memory Encoding in Depressive Symptomatology and Coping. Kreshnik also received the 2025-2026 Erik Dorris Memorial Fellowship, for a second project entitled Examining the Behavioral and Neural Consequences of Stress-induced Anhedonia in Depression. |
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Rotem Dan received the 2025 Alfred Pope Award for Early Career Investigators based on her first authored peer-reviewed publication, “Brain-based graph-theoretical predictive modeling to map the trajectory of anhedonia, impulsivity, and hypomania from the human functional connectome.” |
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Hadar Fisher received the Jonathan Edward Brooking Mental Health Research Scholar Award from McLean for her proposed project “Personalized early detection of depression onset using mobile passive sensing of stress indicators.” Dr. Fisher also received a Kaplen Fellowship from Harvard Medical School. |
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Nigel Jaffe received a grant from Division 29 of the American Psychological Association for his proposed study “Mechanisms of symptom change in Behavioral Activation therapy for depressed youth: An exploratory passive sensing approach” |
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Michelle Thai received a Livingston Award from Harvard Medical School for her proposed project, “Neurobiology of Positive and Negative Perseverative Thinking in Female Adolescents with and without Depression” |
Congratulations to all! |