Hilary Blumberg, MD, John and Hope Furth Professor of Psychiatric Neuroscience and professor of psychiatry, and in the Child Study Center and of radiology and biomedical imaging, has been chosen to receive the 2025 Gerald L. Klerman Senior Investigator Award from the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA).
The Gerald L. Klerman Award is the highest honor that DBSA gives to members of the scientific community. Presented each year, the award recognizes researchers whose work advances knowledge of the causes, diagnosis, and treatment of depression and bipolar disorder.
This year’s award will be presented at the Klerman Awards Reception on May 18, 2025, in Los Angeles. The reception will be held in conjunction with the American Psychiatric Association’s annual conference in Los Angeles.
Blumberg is director of the Mood Disorders Research Program at Yale School of Medicine. Her research is devoted to understanding the brain circuitry differences that underlie mood disorders across the lifespan, with a focus on bipolar disorder and on suicide prevention.
The Mood Disorders Research Program at Yale brings together a multi-disciplinary group of scientists to study the genetic, developmental, and environmental factors that cause mood disorders. They work to develop new methods for early detection, more effective interventions, and prevention of the disorders and their associated high risk for suicide. This research includes the use of new state-of-the-art brain scanning methods, and integrates them with genetic, stem cell and brain organoid, clinical, behavioral, and cognitive data. This has led to groundbreaking discoveries on the development of bipolar disorder and suicide risk that are being translated to new early detection and treatment approaches.
Blumberg has received numerous national and international awards for her work and is a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. She is a member of the Society of Biological Psychiatry.