New Funding Opportunities Aim To Advance Bipolar Disorder Research

Today, Breakthrough Discoveries for thriving pinch Bipolar Disorder (BD²) announced nan opening of a 4th information of backing opportunities for nan Discovery Research program. BD² invites scientists crossed each disciplines to use for up to $4.5 cardinal per grant. Successful teams will undertake groundbreaking investigation into nan genetic, molecular, cellular, circuit, and behavioral mechanisms of bipolar disorder, particularly applications that reside nan following:

• Cellular and molecular mechanisms of mood-state switching;
• Biological mechanisms by which manic aliases depressive episodes are induced by outer consequence factors, specified arsenic pregnancy, childbirth, constituent use, aliases seasonal changes; or
• Using experimental medicine science to trial causality of a molecular aliases circuit-level system underlying mood-state switching.

Discovery-focused investigation is nan cornerstone of innovation. By prioritizing hypothesis-driven, collaboration-forward science, this programme is expanding nan thought abstraction for caller treatments, diagnostic tools, and a deeper foundational knowing of bipolar disorder. Scaled subject of this benignant is redefining what's imaginable successful nan field."

Cara Altimus, PhD, Managing Director of BD²

"The 4th information of backing for nan Discovery Research programme is simply a important milestone toward continuing to make existent and impactful discoveries that tin thrust caller therapies and interventions successful bipolar disorder." said Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine astatine Mount Sinai, and Chair, BD² Research Programs. "This programme continues to link researchers, thrust innovative thinking, and champion real-time information sharing and unfastened entree practices that tin adjacent basal gaps successful our knowing of bipolar disorder."

To date, BD² has committed $89 cardinal to investigation that accelerates technological find and advances successful objective care. Through its accent connected collaboration, information sharing, and interdisciplinary approaches, BD2 is reshaping nan scenery of bipolar upset research.