Anissa Abi-Dargham, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Radiology and the Lourie Endowed Chair in Psychiatry at Stony Brook University in New York, has received the 2025 Award for Research in Psychiatry from the American Psychiatric Association. She was honored for outstanding career-long contributions to schizophrenia research.
At Stony Brook, Dr. Abi-Dargham serves as chair of the department of psychiatry and behavioral health, associate dean, and associate vice president for clinical and translational science at the Renaissance School of Medicine. She first joined the Stony Brook faculty in 2016, after over two decades with Columbia University in New York, where she maintains the title of professor emerita of psychiatry.
In her research, Dr. Abi-Dargham aims to advance the understanding of the neurobiology of severe mental illnesses. As director of the Multi-Modal Translational Imaging Lab, she oversees a team of multidisciplinary researchers to address important questions about the brain mechanisms of schizophrenia. She is deputy editor of the journal Biological Psychiatry and a past president of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.
Dr. Abi-Dargham received her medical degree from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.