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Stanford Medicine Magazine
April 29, 2024
Psychiatry's new frontiers
Hope amid crisis
In this issue of Stanford Medicine Magazine, hear from our Department Chair, Dr. Laura Roberts and Vice Chair, Dr. Victor Carrión on solutions for the mental health crisis emerging through innovative research, diagnostics and treatments.
Learn more about the latest transformative work of our Center's research members, Drs. Boris Heifets, Carolyn Rodriguez, Claudia Padula, Corey Keller, Ehsan Adeli, Gianni Glick, Karl Deisseroth, Nolan Williams, Steven Adelsheim and Trisha Suppes.
Funding Announcements
Leanne Williams receives $18 million National Institutes of Health grant to diagnose and treat depression
June 7, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Leanne Williams, Vincent V.C. Woo Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences on being awarded as a five-year, $18.86 million grant!
The grant is part of the National Institute for Health’s Individually Measured Phenotypes to Advance Computational Translation in Mental Health initiative, to develop a diagnosis and treatment tool for depressive disorders.
Williams, the Vincent V.C. Woo Professor and the director of the Stanford Center for Precision Mental Health and Wellness, will be the project leader; the co-principal investigators are Jun Ma, MD, PhD, and Olu Ajilore, MD, PhD, of the University of Illinois, Chicago. Additional Stanford Medicine investigators include Laura Hack, MD, PhD, Trevor Hastie, PhD, Booil Jo, PhD, Ruth O'Hara, PhD, Peter van Roessel, MD, PhD, and Alan Schatzberg, MD.
Only one-third of patients with depression improve with current assessment and treatment approaches. This project has the potential to double that number, Williams said.