NEWS

The CINP Research Fellowships 2025 finished off with an in-person colloquium just prior to the start of the CINP-AsCNP 2025 Joint Congress in Melbourne. 
 
We extend our thanks to Prof. Rachel Hill and Prof. Ming-Chyi Huang, who prepared very interesting talks and joined lively discussions with the fellows, as well as to Dr. Matthew Kang and Dr. Shyh-Yuh Wei from the Early Careers Committee, who took on the role of organizers and moderators. 

The third round of Research Fellowship was a huge success and we already start preparing the next edition. 

If you consider applying for 2026, you can pre-register your interest at earlycareers@cinp.org

We are excited to annouce the recipients of the Rafaelsen Young Investigators Award 2025:

• Yuya Mizuno
• Thomas Prevos
• Zijun Wang

Due to a very high number of entries of exceptional quality, the following applicants have been awarded a President's Recognition for Young Investigtors diploma:

• Nadia Cattane
• Ilari D'Aprile
• Moritz Haaf
• Jonathan Kanen
• Yanhui Li
• Fitri Fareez Ramli
• Anya Topiwala
• Fumihiko Ueno
• Daniela Uliana
• Licia Vellucci

Congratulations to all awardees!

We are delighted to announce the recipients of the CINP Student Encouragement Award 2025:

• Minxia Jin, Hong Kong
• Charlotte Caswell, Canada
• Samantha Graf, Austria
• Chih-Wei Lin, Taiwan
• Yunkai Sun, China
• Orla Mallon, United Kingdom
• Ying-Ting Chao, Taiwan
• Matthew Kang, Australia
• Thi-Hung Le, South Korea
• Ben Moloney, New Zealand
• Abubacker Rahina, India
• Simeng Ma, Japan
• Giulia Petrillo, Italy

The CINP Fellowship and Awards Committee decided to also award several President's Special Commendation Diplomas. More details can be found here.

Congratulations to all awardees!

It is our great pleasure to announce the recipients of the CINP AsCNP Brain Health Research Awards 2025:

• CINP AsCNP Brain Health Clinical Research Award: Dr. Diego A. Pizzagalli
  
  
• CINP AsCNP Brain Health Basic Research Award: Dr. Tsuyoshi Miyakawa
  
  
• CINP President's Brain Health Research Award: Dr. Lianne Schmaal

The awards will be presented during the Opening ceremony of the CINP-AsCNP 2025 Joint Congress in Melbourne on June 15, 2025.

Congratulations to all awardees!

• Martha López-Canul at al.: Neuropathic Pain impairs Sleep Architecture, NREM sleep and Reticular Thalamic Neuronal activity. Read HERE
  
  

• D. Bezhad et al.: Association of driving with blood THC: A systematic review. Read HERE
  
  

• Michal Lazar et al.: Premorbid Characteristics of the SAPAP3 Mouse Model of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Behavior, Neuroplasticity, and Psilocybin Treatment. Read HERE

• Yingliang Dai et al.: Towards an expanded neurocognitive account of ketamine’s rapid antidepressant effects. Read HERE
  
  

• Mustafa Tuncturk et al.: The development of opioid vaccines as a novel strategy for the treatment of opioid use disorder and overdose prevention. Read HERE
  
  

• Jonathan M. Meyer et al.: From Theory to Therapy: Unlocking the Potential of Muscarinic Receptor Activation in Schizophrenia With the Dual M1/M4 Muscarinic Receptor Agonist Xanomeline and Trospium Chloride and Insights From Clinical Trials. Read Here

We are delighted to announce that the abstracts from the CINP2024 Congress in Tokyo have been published as a Supplement to the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. 

The Tokyo congress received a record number of abstract submissions of excellent quality and we are thrilled to be able to share these with the global audience now. 

Read Here

• Michael J. Mueller et al.: Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of an Innovative Psychedelic N,N-Dimethyltryptamine/Harmine Formulation in Healthy Participants: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Read HERE
  
  

• Haiting Zhao et al.: Disrupting heroin-associated memory reconsolidation through actin polymerization inhibition in the nucleus accumbens core. Read HERE

• Alessandro Seretti et al.: Anhedonia is associated with a specific depression profile and poor antidepressant response. Read HERE
  
  

• Helen M. Collins: Psychedelics for the Treatment of Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder: Efficacy and Proposed Mechanisms. Read HERE
  
  

• Wei Guan et al.: A novel insight into the antidepressant effect of cannabidiol: possible involvement of the 5-HT1A, CB1, GPR55, and PPARγ receptors. Read HERE

We are delighted to announce the recipients of the CINP Pioneer Award in 2025.

Prof. Siegfried Kasper (Austria)

Prof. Brian Dean (Australia)

The awards will be presented during the Opening ceremony of the CINP-AsCNP 2025 Joint Congress in Melbourne on June 15, 2025.