Our Annual Conference

Applications Due: June 30th, 2025, 5:00pm EST

Description of Award:
The Center for Precision Psychiatry (CPP) invites applications for the 2025 Emerging Innovators in Precision Psychiatry Awards. This opportunity recognizes the contributions of early career investigators in the emerging area of precision psychiatry. Winners will be selected to present their work at the virtual 5th Annual Conference on Precision Psychiatry on September 25th and 26th, 2025 and will receive a $500 USD honorarium.

Precision psychiatry aims to identify and leverage individual differences in biology, lifestyle, environment, and the social determinants of health, to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of mental health conditions. Integrating research, clinical implementation, education and training, the Center is committed to driving innovation to implementation and making discoveries that can be translated to clinical care. 

The Annual Conference on Precision Psychiatry has become a leading venue for showcasing advances in the application of precision medicine approaches to psychiatric research and clinical practice. Learn more about our annual conference and past events below.

Eligibility:

• Postdoctoral fellows (incoming or current) or faculty at the level of Instructor or Assistant Professors are eligible to apply.
• U.S. and non-U.S. citizens are eligible.

Review Criteria:

Applications will be considered based on:

• Innovation, rigor, and potential impact of the research;
• Alignment with the goals of precision psychiatry;
• Applicant track record and potential for future research in precision psychiatry.

Due Date:
Applications will be accepted until 5:00 pm EST Monday, June 30th, 2025.

Application Requirements:

1. A current curriculum vitae or resume.
2. Abstract/Summary (no more than 2 pages) including:
   
   1. Project title
   2. Authors/affiliations
   3. Background/significance (preliminary data, research design)
   4. Objective/aim
   5. Methods
   6. Results
   7. Interpretation/discussion including relevance to work in precision psychiatry
3. One letter of support commenting on the applicant’s research and potential for leadership in the field.
   1.  Recommenders may direct letters to mghctrprecisionpsych@mgh.harvard.edu.

Application Timeline:

• Abstracts due: June 30th, 2025, 5:00pm ET
• Award notification: August 15th, 2025
• Final presentation due: September 15th, 2025
• Conference presentation: September 26th, 2025
  • 10-minute presentation followed by a 5-minute Q&A with conference moderator

Applicants should apply by utilizing the 2025 Emerging Innovators Application Survey, linked below.

https://redcap.link/2025EmergingInnovators

Questions can be directed to mghctrprecisionpsych@mgh.harvard.edu.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions or any other characteristic protected by law.

Our fourth Annual Conference, "Innovation to Implementation", was held virtually on September 26th and 27th, 2024. The Conference was held in partnership with the Mass General Department of Psychiatry and the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit in the Mass General Center for Genomic Medicine. The conference featured Keynotes by Dr. Isaac Kohane, Professor & Chair within the Dept. of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School, and Dr. Rosalind Picard, Founder and Director of Affective Computing Research at MIT.

View highlights from the 2024 Conference Here!

Our third Annual Conference, "Innovation to Implementation", was held virtually on September 29th and 30th, 2023. The Conference was held in partnership with the Mass General Department of Psychiatry and the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit in the Mass General Center for Genomic Medicine. The conference featured Keynotes by Dr. John Krystal, Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University, and Dr. Helen Mayberg, Director of The Nash Family Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

View highlights from the 2023 Conference Here!

Our second Annual Conference, "Innovation to Implementation", was held virtually on November 2nd and November 3rd, 2022. The Conference was held in partnership with the Mass General Department of Psychiatry and the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit in the Mass General Center for Genomic Medicine. The conference featured keynote addresses from Dr. Kelsey Martin, Director of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI), and Dr. Thomas Insel, former Director of NIMH and author of Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health (Penguin Press, 2022).

Our first Annual Conference, "The Promise of Precision Predication, Prevention, and Treatment in Mental Health", was held virtually on September 30th and October 1st, 2021. The Conference was held in partnership with the Mass General Department of Psychiatry and the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit in the Mass General Center for Genomic Medicine. The Conference featured a Keynote address from Dr. Joshua Gordon, and an opening plenary from Dr. Joshua Denny.