Young investigators and senior scientists in Pitt's psychiatry department have been awarded an array of scholarly honors, research grants and recognition for highly influential papers.

The Sleep Research Society presented Daniel Buysse, MD, with the 2015 Mary A. Carskadon Outstanding Educator Award. Dr. Buysse is an internationally recognized expert in the pathophysiology of insomnia. Learn more.

A special R01 grant from NIMH -- Biobehavioral Research Award for Innovative New Scientists (BRAINS) -- will support Susan Perlman, PhD, in her research on understanding the neurodevelopment of irritability.  Dr. Perlman aims to develop a method to differentiate normal and aberrant neurodevelopment to allow for early intervention. Learn more.

David Brent, MD, was selected by the Institute of Living/Hartford Hospital to receive the C. Charles Burlingame Award. Learn more.

Susanne Ahmari, MD, PhD, has received a McKnight Scholar Award, which is granted to investigators who conduct innovative basic research.  Dr. Amari is using the  funds for her studies on impaired neurocognitive function in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder. Learn more.

Edward Mulvey, PhD, has been invited to serve a two-year term as Board Chair of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs Scientific Advisory Board. The Board advises the justice department's Assistant Attorney General about the state of research in the justice system.  Learn more.

Eva Szigethy, MD, PhD, has received the Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation Award from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry The award   recognizes the best research paper on depression or suicide published in the Journal of the American Association of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Learn more.
 
Senior scientists William E. Klunk, MD, PhD,  David A. Lewis, MD, and David J. Kupfer, MD, have been named by Thomson Reuters as among the top 1% of scientists for most cited research.  Learn more.