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William A. Carlezon, Jr., Ph.D.
ACNP President
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President's Message
We officially live in interesting times. Many of us are planning for contingencies we never thought possible. We don't have answers to important questions. Now more ever, we need to band together to find the things that link us together and provide strength and resilience. I want to assure you that, in 2025, the ACNP will be a source of strength for our members and the broader scientific community, as we continue without interruption our mission of advancing clinical care, research, and education in ways that reduce stigma and improve mental health outcomes.
Read the full letter here>>
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Persevering in 2025
“Research is an expression of faith in the possibility of progress. The drive that leads scholars to study a topic has to include the belief that new things can be discovered, that newer can be better, and that greater depth of understanding is achievable. Research, especially academic research, is a form of optimism about the human condition.”
- Henry Rosovsky
Click here to read more!
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Sarah Timm, CAE, CMP-HC
ACNP Executive Director
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2025 New Associate Members,
New Members,
& Members Promoted to Fellow
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2025 New Associate Members
The College would like to highlight a few of the new 2025 Associate Member Class!
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Stay tuned for the May, August and November Bulletins to meet our other new Associate Members. | |
New 2025 Officers and Council Members | |
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Deanna Barch, Ph.D.
President-Elect
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Susanne Ahmari, M.D., Ph.D.
Council Member
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Dost Ongur, M.D., Ph.D.
Council Member
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2025 ACNP Council
Click here to see the complete list of our Council Members.
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Successful 2024 Annual Meeting | |
We hope you enjoyed the 2024 ACNP Annual Meeting and found the information shared to be invigorating. | | |
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2024 Annual Meeting Photos
Photos from the 2024 Annual Meeting are available on the members' only section of the ACNP Website under
the Annual Meeting tab.
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2024 Honorific Awards
The 2024 Honorific Awards were presented by Awards Committee chair, Kerry Ressler, M.D., Ph.D. at the ACNP Annual Meeting.
Click here to learn more about the 2024 Honorific Award winners and watch their acceptance videos!
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2024 Annual Meeting Mentors
ACNP would like to thank the 2024 Annual Meeting Mentors.
Click here to see a list of Meeting Mentors!
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2024 Career Development Session
Meeting the Press: Tips for Effectively Communicating
Your Research
Shawn McClintock, Ph.D., Career Development Committee 2024 Chair
The Career Development Committee was pleased to organize its 14th Career Development Session at the 63rd Annual Meeting. To learn more about the session, click here!
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January 2026 Annual Meeting | |
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REMINDER: Member invited guest invitations will be limited to 400. Please review the requirements for the invitation banks in lieu of your member invitation, when applicable.
What does this mean?
- Members MUST attend the meeting to extend guest invitations.
- Member guest invitations will be capped at 400 requests. As a reminder, Members, Fellows and Emeritus members have one invited guest invitation.
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Member guest invitations will be issued on a first come, first served basis. *Actual invitations will not be extended until registration officially opens in June.
- Council has discussed annual meeting growth over the years and in the last and current strategic plan agreed that once the meeting hit 2,000 attendees, Council should develop ways to cap the attendance. This is to keep the ability to meet in one hotel and not have to move to convention centers with multiple hotels.
The online invitation request portal will open on April 21st.
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STAY TUNED: Information on Travel Awards will be sent soon!
OPEN: March 31, 2025
DEADLINE: May 8, 2025
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Lisa M. Monteggia, Ph.D.
Co-Principal Editor
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Tony P. George, M.D.
Co-Principal Editor
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The 12th annual Neuropsychopharmacology Editors’ Award for a Transformative Original Report (NEATOR), 8th annual Neuropsychopharmacology Editors’ Award for a Review (NEAR), and 6th annual Neuropsychopharmacology Editors’ Early Career Award (NEECA) were presented during the 63rd ACNP Annual Meeting.
Click here to read more about the 2024 NPP Award winners and watch their acceptance videos!
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Check out the latest NPP Podcasts! | |
Sex differences in sensitivity to dopamine receptor manipulations of risk-based decision making - January 16, 2025
Biomarker development for menstrual cycle affective change: the need for greater temporal, mechanistic, and phenotypic specificity - December 2, 2024
Click here to listen to the podcasts!
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NPP Reviewers
New Members and Associate Members who would like to be added to the reviewer pool for NPP should create a profile on the Springer Nature site at www.nature.com/npp. On your personal profile check yes to the query, "Do we have the permission to contact you by email regarding editorial matters (such as peerreviewing) or to help improve our services to authors and referees?" and your name will be added to the reviewer pool. Please contact the Journal, journal@acnp.org, with questions.
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NPP: Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience | | |
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William A. Carlezon, Jr., Ph.D.,
Principal Editor
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Near-Peer Mentorship Program | |
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The ACNP Near-Peer Mentorship Program is the College's newest initiative to promote and sustain diversity in the ACNP pipeline; this program is designed to provide year-long one-on-one mentorship support from ACNP members to early career scientists in research fields in and adjacent to neuropsychopharmacology. The program provides education on topics such as career skills, goal setting, negotiating, time management, starting a lab, negotiating positions, career life balance, and culturally responsive mentorship relationships. This is an intensive multi-year program that includes monthly virtual mentoring, monthly training workshops, and an annual in-person half-day mentorship program just prior to the ACNP Annual Meeting. The program will be managed by the ACNP Mentoring Task Force and the College, utilizing materials from the Center for the Improvement for Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER). The goal of the program is to optimize mentoring relationships by providing mentors and mentees with an intellectual framework for effective mentoring relationships, an opportunity to experiment with various methods, and a forum in which to solve mentor/mentee dilemmas with the help of their peers.
Click here to meet the 2025 Near-Peer Cohort!
Thank you to the 2024 Near-Peer Cohort Mentors for another successful program!
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The College partnered with the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) to select up to four distinguished young scientists from the 2024 ACNP Travel Award class to participate in SfN's Annual Hill Day event. 2024 Travel Awardees were asked to submit a statement of interest in public service or advocacy, a statement of their experience volunteering in governmental education efforts, advocacy outreach or elections as well as an updated C/V for review by both the chairs of the Education and Training Committee and Liaison Committee.
This year, the committee chairs selected the following distinguished young scientists from the 2024 Travel Award class to participate in the virtual event starting with Hill Day training on February 25, 2025 followed by the full Hill Day(s) on March 11-13, 2025.
Rodolfo Flores Garcia, Ph.D., The University of Texas at El Paso
Lana Grasser, Ph.D., Wayne State University
Serena Gumusoglu, Ph.D., M.Sc., University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Karthik Sarma, M.D., Ph.D., UCSF Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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Every year on the third Thursday in April, institutions and organizations around the world celebrate Biomedical Research Awareness Day (BRAD) through various events, including tabling events, classroom takeovers, and science trivia nights. This year, BRAD will be celebrated on Thursday, April 17, 2025, and we hope you will consider joining us in celebrating BRAD at your institution.
Registration is now open, and all registered ACNP participants will receive a box of giveaways and educational materials for your event. We can work with you directly to help make it a success!
Please reach out to Drs. Logan France (logan@amprogress.org) and Nakul Aggarwal (naggarwal5@wisc.edu) with any questions.
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BRAD 2025 Webinar
Unlocking Prevention: How Vaccine Research in Animals Saves People and Their Pets
Deborah Fuller, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Microbiology
The University of Washington School of Medicine
Director, Washington National Primate Research Center
Vaccines have saved millions of lives and were made possible only through vital animal research. This talk will focus on how animals, including rodents and nonhuman primates, are essential to our goal to develop new vaccines that can prevent future epidemics and pandemics caused by coronaviruses, influenza and other infectious diseases. We will also talk about the emergence of Valley Fever, a serious fungal disease that is rapidly spreading due to climate change and how one small colony of nonhuman primates in the Southwest United States may hold the key to developing a vaccine that can protect humans and their pets. These studies highlight the critical role of animals in vaccine development.
The webinar will be live-streamed on April 17, 2025 from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET.
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What is the ACNP/AMP BRAD Fellowship? | | |
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APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN!
Early-stage investigators and postdoctoral fellows are eligible for the ACNP/AMP BRAD Fellowship, an exciting opportunity to gain science communication and advocacy experience for the importance of animals in biomedical research! You can learn more about the Fellowship, including relevant deadlines and instructions for applying, on the BRAD website. Click here to view the application flyer.
Applications for the 2025-2026 ACNP/AMP-BRAD Fellowship are now open for early career scientists through June 1, 2025!
Please do not hesitate to reach out to Dr. Logan France (logan@amprogress.org) and current BRAD fellow Dr. Nakul Aggarwal (naggarwal5@wisc.edu) with any questions.
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Fun Facts About ACNP Members! | |
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🎙 BrainSTEM Podcast
Hosted by ACNP Associate Member Dr. Hilary Marusak, a developmental neuroscientist and associate professor at Wayne State University, the BrainSTEM Podcast explores the fascinating intersections of neuroscience, mental health, and society. Each episode features in-depth conversations with leading researchers, clinicians, and experts, unpacking cutting-edge science on brain development, psychiatric disorders, and innovative treatments. Complex findings are translated into meaningful discussions for professionals, students, and curious minds alike.
Produced by trainees Amanpreet Bhogal, Manmeet Bhogal, and Gabby Maramag, BrainSTEM has featured notable guests, including ACNP members. Recent episodes include Dr. Matt Hill discussing the science of cannabis (E21), as well as Drs. Ryan Herringa and Tanja Jovanovic delving into the neuroscience of PTSD.
From psychedelics and “mommy brain” to breaking the stigma of mental illness, BrainSTEM brings science to life with engaging, thought-provoking conversations.
🎧 Listen here:
📲 Follow us on Instagram: @brainstempodcast
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Please send your Fun Fact to Erin Shearon, eshearon@acnp.org,
to be featured in a future Bulletin!
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- May 8, 2025: Deadline to submit Travel Award applications
- May 27, 2025: Deadline for submission of overall proposals by chairs (Panels, Mini-Panels, & Study Groups)
- June 10, 2025: Deadline for submissions of individual presenter abstracts (Panels & Mini-Panels)
- June 10, 2025: Deadline for submission of disclosures by Study Group participants
- June 12, 2025: Deadline for chairs to review and finalize proposed sessions (Panels, Mini-Panels, & Study Groups)
- January 12-15, 2026: ACNP 64th Annual Meeting, Atlantis Paradise Island Resort
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Upcoming Meetings:
To see a list of upcoming meetings in the field of neuropsychopharmacology, please click below:
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Employment and Grant Opportunities:
To see a list of new employment and grant opportunities in the field of neuropsychopharmacology, please click below:
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National Academy of Medicine Awards | |
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2025 National Academy of Medicine Awards
Now Accepting Nominations!
- Gustav O. Lienhard Award for Advancement of Health Care
- Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health
- David and Beatrix Hamburg Award for Advances in Biomedical Research and Clinical Medicine
Deadline to submit a nomination is May 15, 2025.
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For a full listing of the ACNP Staff in the Executive Office, click here. | | | | |
