Kunmi Sobowale, MD, a third-year resident in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, and Daniel Barron, MD, PhD, a second-year resident, have been named recipients of the 2018-19 Thomas P. Detre Fellowship Awards in Translational Neuroscience Research in Psychiatry.
The awards support translational research endeavors of residents enrolled (or interested in enrolling) in the Neuroscience Research Training Program in Psychiatry. Recipients are provided with up to $30,000 in support of their projects and training.
Sobowale’s project will use data-driven and theory-driven approaches to study the contributions of early life stress, chronic stress, and acute stress as well as reward processing on depression. He aims to develop and validate computational models to aid prevention and treatment of mental disorders.
Barron’s project will focus on bipolar affective disorder. He will combine measures of symptomatology, passive and active task performance, and neurophysiology to better define affective changes.
Both residents will be given the opportunity to present their proposals to John Krystal, MD, Department Chair, and the people whose generosity made the awards possible.
The Detre Awards were established in memory of Dr. Detre, an internationally renowned academic psychiatrist, esteemed Yale Psychiatry faculty member/alumnus, and Chair of Psychiatry, Vice Chancellor of Health Services, and Dean at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Sobowale obtained his medical degree from University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in 2015. Barron obtained his medical degree from Yale University in 2016 and his PhD from University of Texas Health Center at San Antonio in 2014.