Four new MQ Fellows

MQ is providing more than £900,000 to support four early career researchers, who will be carrying out cutting-edge, innovative mental health research. Their projects address some of the major questions we face in mental health, exploring new ways to understand, treat and prevent mental illness.

2014 Fellows announced

We are delighted to announce our 2014 MQ Fellows Award winners. Find out more about the four outstanding researchers and their pioneering work.

Our new 2014 Fellows are:
–       Dr Jeremiah Cohen, a neuroscientist based at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, building a ‘map’ of serotonin to improve our understanding of the biology of mood.

–       Dr Helen Fisher, an interdisciplinary scientist from King’s College London exploring the biological, psychological and social aspects of adverse childhood experiences to understand the development and trajectory of psychotic symptoms in childhood.
 
–       Dr Sergiu Pasca, an Assistant Professor based at Stanford University generating in a dish live human neurons from patients with schizophrenia to gain insights into how schizophrenia develops and to identify new therapeutic targets.

–       Dr Andrea Reinecke, an Oxford University clinical psychologist developing an innovative, effective, single-session Cognitive Behavioural Therapy treatment for anxiety disorders.

You can read the announcement and more about our 2014 winners on our website here.