Anjali Sankar, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, has received a competitive travel award to attend the 25th annual Wisconsin Symposium on Emotion.
The symposium will be held April 10 and 11, 2019 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The program includes presentations, breakout discussions, poster sessions, and opportunities to engage with investigators from across the country.
Travel awards are competitive and are awarded to students at all levels of their education, including undergraduates, residents, fellows, and MD and PhD students.
Sankar received her Doctor of Philosophy from King’s College London in 2015, and she has been a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale since January 2018.
Her research is focused on mood disorders, with an emphasis on identifying reliable neurobiological targets for early diagnosis, for more effective treatment strategies, and for preventing negative outcomes, especially suicide.
At Yale she is investigating the brain, behavior, and symptom effects of a psychobehavioral intervention in youth with bipolar disorders. She is also investigating brain biomarkers of suicide risk in youth with the goal of developing new ways to better identify risk factors and more specifically and effectively targeting them.