Professor Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy, of the Department of Neurobiology, is the recipient of the 2021 One Mind Nick LeDeit Rising Star Research Award. One Mind is a mental health nonprofit that conducts brain research and aims to transform mental illness by accelerating discoveries, scaling implementation, and transforming societal culture.
One Mind launched the Rising Star Awards in 2005 to try and find the breakthroughs to accelerate cures for the neuropsychiatric illnesses that affect 1 in 4 people worldwide. Award winners receive $300,000 over a three-year period to fund their studies in an effort to catalyze innovation and encourage collaboration and data sharing. Kozorovitskiy will investigate if dopamine signaling is a key biomarker for predicting individuals who heal after trauma (resilient) versus those that don’t (susceptible).
One Mind has granted 36 awards since 2005, and since 90% of neuropsychiatric illnesses are treatable, these researchers have gone on to make a significant impact, both in their studies and in the brain health community.
Each Rising Star Award recipient will present their research at the Scientific Symposium portion of the 27th Music Festival for Brain Health at Staglin Family Vineyard in Rutherford, California on Saturday, September 11, 2021.
Read more about the award here.