Abi-Dargham to Receive 2025 Award for Research in Psychiatry by American Psychiatric Association

Anissa Abi-Dargham, MD, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Radiology and the Lourie Endowed Chair in Psychiatry, has been selected to receive the 2025 Award for Research in Psychiatry by the American Psychiatric Association.

Abi-Dargham, chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health and associate dean and associate vice president for clinical and translational science at the Stony Brook Renaissance School of Medicine, was recognized for her distinguished contributions to schizophrenia research that has had a major impact on the field.

“I am very honored and grateful to receive this award and to be able to present the work of many trainees and collaborators I have had the privilege to work with over the course of my career,” Abi-Dargham said. “It has been a pleasure to work with such talented and dedicated scientists and to contribute to the discovery process. This award is very meaningful particularly at a time when research is facing so many challenges.”

The American Psychiatric Association notified Abi-Dargham of her selection and that she had been nominated for the award by Nina Kraguljac, MD, professor and vice chair for strategy and innovation in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at the Ohio State University College of Medicine.

First awarded in 1949 as the Hofheimer Prize, the Award for Research in Psychiatry recognizes a single distinguished contribution, a body of work or a lifetime contribution that has had a major impact on the field and/or altered the practice of psychiatry. The award covers the full spectrum of psychiatric research.

Abi-Dargham will receive her award and deliver a lecture, “Misfiring signals: Dopamine Dysfunction in Schizophrenia – From Neural Pathways to Behavioral Manifestations,” on May 19 at the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting in Los Angeles.