2025 Bipolar Disorder Seed Grant Awardees
Supported by the Dauten Family Foundation and Sandra Lee Chen and Sidney Chen, the HBI Bipolar Disorder Seed Grant Program funds research relevant to the basic understanding and treatment of bipolar disorder at Harvard University and its affiliated hospitals. We are delighted to announce the 2025 awardees! Click here to learn more about their projects.
Paola Arlotta
Harvard University
Catherine Dulac
Harvard University
Susan Dymecki
Harvard Medical School
Michael E. Greenberg
Harvard Medical School
Jun Huh
Harvard Medical School
William A. Carlezon Jr.
McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Jordan Farrell
Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Christopher Harvey
Harvard Medical School
Daniel Hochbaum
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School
Bernardo Sabatini
Harvard Medical School
Louisa Sylvia
Mass. General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
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It was long thought that only neurons in the outermost regions of the brain, called the cortex, could adapt and change their properties in response to visual experience. Takuma Sonoda and Chinfei Chen share new findings revealing that the visual thalamus, a structure in the center of the brain, at an earlier stage in the visual pathway than the cortex, can also change based on what animals see. Their discovery expands our understanding of how sensory systems learn and adapt.
For many years, researchers have debated whether language in humans emerged through the evolution of gestural communication or vocal communication. Erin Hecht shares new data from chimpanzee research supporting a model where both modalities together contributed.
New research from Karen Adelman and colleagues, first author Apoorva Baluapuri, shows how failure of a gene-reading quality-control mechanism called Integrator leaves cells littered with abnormal RNA strands that increase cell stress and may contribute to diseases such as cancer and neurodegeneration.
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