DGC Co-Director Michelle Craske, PhD, was featured in a May 6, 2026, Washington Post article about positive affect treatment, a therapy designed to target anhedonic depression, a severe type of depression.
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Two UCLA Depression Grand Challenge researchers have been named among the world’s most influential scholars in the sciences and social sciences: Michelle Craske, PhD, DGC co-director and creator of the STAND system of care; and Elaine Hsiao, PhD, director of the UCLA Goodman–Luskin Microbiome Center and an expert on the ways in which the gut microbiome influences neurobiology.
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Michelle Popowitz, executive director of the UCLA Depression Grand Challenge and UCLA assistant vice chancellor for research, contributed her expertise to a panel at the 7th annual LABEST Bioscience Conference, hosted by the UCLA Technology Development Group (TDG) on May 22, 2025.
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Two DGC researchers have been named among the world’s most influential scholars in the sciences and social sciences: Michelle Craske, PhD, DGC Co-Director and creator of the STAND system of care; and Elaine Hsiao, PhD, director of the UCLA Goodman–Luskin Microbiome Center and an expert on the ways in which the gut microbiome influences neurobiology.
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UCLA Depression Grand Challenge Co-Director Michelle Craske, PhD, spoke on an expert panel about mental health research on May 2, 2024, on Capitol Hill.
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Wellcome, a global charitable organization that funds discovery research, issued a request for proposals to extend the work of the digital sensing workshop, hosted at UCLA and co-sponsored by Wellcome and the National Institute of Mental Health in March 2023.
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UCLA Depression Grand Challenge Executive Director Michelle Popowitz co-led a three-hour workshop at the 2023 NORDP ReCON: ForwaRD! national conference this month. The workshop, “Leveraging Campus-Scale Initiatives to Advance RD Goals: The Case Study of Grand Challenges,” featured thought leaders who had been the first to lead campus-wide grand challenge-type programs at their universities.
During Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference this week, Apple cited UCLA Depression Grand Challenge mental health research findings and expertise in demonstrating the importance of caring for your mental health.
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Dr. Nelson B. Freimer, UCLA Depression Grand Challenge director, highlighted current DGC research in a lecture titled “Transformations Coming to Psychiatric Assessment: The Role of Genetics and Digital Technologies” on Apr. 18, 2023.
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Jonathan Flint, UCLA behavioral geneticist and Depression Grand Challenge Executive Committee member, shared background about the theory of the “warrior gene” in a blog post written for the Oxford University Press.
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