The UCLA Depression Grand Challenge’s NIMH-funded STAND for Community Colleges Innovation Center announced its second call for proposals for pilot projects. This funding mechanism is open to UCLA-based early-career researchers. Up to three projects will be awarded up to $25,000 each.
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BD2, an organization funding large-scale bipolar research, unveiled a new research collaboration on March 30, 2023, to further understanding of the genetic basis of bipolar disorder. The collaboration is headed by The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and includes the New York Genome Center and the UCLA Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics, led by UCLA Depression Grand Challenge Director Nelson Freimer, MD.
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The UCLA Depression Grand Challenge hosted a speed-ideation session at the university’s 2023 Bar Raiser Summit: DISRUPTx, a full-day professional development workshop for communications professionals across the campus.
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More than 50 leading mental health and computer science researchers, industry experts, advocates and funders from six countries came together at UCLA Feb. 28 – Mar. 2, 2023 to collaborate on a shared vision and common goals for digital sensing technologies in mental health research.
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The Depression Grand Challenge team served as host of the second semi-annual meeting of researchers involved with the MCPsych program funded by Wellcome Leap from Nov. 3-4, 2022.
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The Depression Grand Challenge opened a new research study aimed to measure and track behavioral characteristics of depression and use these measures to predict brain activity, as measured by MRI scans.
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Beginning today, ELAC students who sign up for the STAND at ELAC program have the option of enrolling in the STAND at ELAC research studies and earning up to $275 for their participation.
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The UCLA Depression Grand Challenge’s NIMH-funded STAND for Community Colleges Innovation Center announced its first call for pilot projects on Aug. 10, 2022. Proposals are due Sept. 19, 2022.
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The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health awarded the Depression Grand Challenge another year of funding as part of the DMH+UCLA Public Partnership for Wellbeing.
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On May 16, 2022, Vice Chancellor Monroe Gorden and CAPS Director Nicole Green announced the opening of the Stress and Resilience or “STAR” Program.
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