The Center for Brain & Mind Health Pilot Program is the center's annual keystone initiative, embodying its core value of interdisciplinary collaboration as a driver of clinically relevant neuroscience.
This year, four projects were selected for funding, led by highly collaborative teams comprised of researchers with diverse professional and personal backgrounds:
- Leveraging Whole-Brain Networks to Characterize Preclinical White Matter Injury
Team: Cyprien Rivier, MD, MSc; Elisenda Bueichekú, PhD
- Manipulating Charge Interactions Between Bacterial Type-IV Pili and Host Cells to Treat Brain Infections
Team: Nikhil Malvankar, PhD; Steven Schiff, MD, PhD; Sibel Ebru Yalcin, PhD; Marwan Osman, PhD
- Neurobehavioral Dyadic Synchrony in Parent-Youth Facial Interactions: A Multi-Modal Suicide Prevention Target
Team: Christine Cha, PhD; Hilary Blumberg, MD; Joy Hirsch, PhD
- Targeting Emotion Circuit Maturation as a Neurodevelopmental Mechanism to Reduce Post-Traumatic Psychiatric Symptoms in Youth
Team: Dylan Gee, PhD; Carla Stover, PhD