Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 32nd One Mind Music Festival! Year after year, we are astounded by the generosity, determination, and commitment of this community. Together, we raised over $3.6M to advance mental health research and discovery. A few highlights from the day stand out to us: 🔬 Inspiring insights at the Science & Innovation Symposium from @COMPASSPathway Co-Founders Dr. Ekaterina Malievskaia & Lars Wilde; our 2026 One Mind Rising Star Awardees; a fireside chat with Dr. Matthew White of @SutterHealth and One Mind's Dr. Kathy Pike, Brandon Staglin, & Dr. David Ballard; and @OMAccelerator founders Jenny Barnett (Monument Therapeutics) & Dr. Jeff Chen (Radicle Science) 🍷 The wine tasting reception presented by @AlmaRosaWines, paired with gourmet bites by EPIC Steak & Waterbar 🎸 An unforgettable performance by The Fray, celebrating 20 years of "How to Save a Life" 🎭 A surprise VIP dinner performance by Broadway's Tamar Greene, accompanied by pianist Elaine Kwon We are deeply thankful to our presenting partners @BankofAmerica & Bristol Myers Squibb (@bmsnews / @ScienceAtBMS) for their continued commitment to mental health innovation, to the wonderfully talented Chef PJ Calapa, to @StaglinWine, to our Board of Directors, and to every guest, vintner, and supporter who made this day possible. THANK YOU! Mark your calendars for the 33rd One Mind Music Festival on September 11, 2027, and join us before then in NYC on April 5, 2027 for Apollo & Psyche: onemind.org/ApolloAndPsyche Read the full festival recap: onemind.org/news/over-3-6m-r… #OneMindMusicFestival #MentalHealth #MusicFestival #MentalHealthResearch #TheFray #Music #Healing #Community 📸: Photography by Kristy Walker

Before psychedelic research, Pedram Dara built software for startups. Then a 2018 clinical trial of MDMA-assisted therapy changed his career entirely. In our newest Lived Experience Blog post, @pedramdara makes the case for why lived experience should help shape research, not just decorate it. Read the full post: onemind.org/lived-experience… 🧠 Pedram Dara is the Founder & Director of Psychedelic Lived Experiences (@psych_lived_exp) and a member of our One Mind Community Advisory Network (OMCAN). Learn more about OMCAN at onemind.org/OMCAN #LivedExperience #MentalHealthResearch #Psychedelics #OneMind

What if we could treat the brain circuits involved in depression without surgery? That's the question driving the work of Jan Kubanek, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at @WashU (@washumedicine) and recipient of the 2026 One Mind Harvey Schwartz Rising Star Award. Nearly 300 million people worldwide live with depression, and roughly one-third don't respond to available treatments. Dr. Kubanek is working to change that. His research uses noninvasive focused ultrasound to precisely reach the brain circuits involved in depression, targeting specific regions without surgery. It's a technology that could not only expand treatment options, but also help us understand depression itself in an entirely new way. #MentalHealth #Research #Depression #Neuroscience #MentalHealthResearch

Introducing the 2026 One Mind Rising Star Awardees 🔬💫 These five visionary, early-career scientists, selected to receive the 2026 Rising Star Awards, are pushing the boundaries of neuroscience and psychiatry and we're very proud to support their work! Meet the 2026 awardees: 🌟 Aaron Alexander-Bloch, MD, PhD (@Aaron_A_B) 🌟 Kiyohito Iigaya, PhD (@kyo_iigaya) 🌟 Jan Kubanek, PhD 🌟 Kimberly Reinhold, PhD 🌟 Shriya Srinivasan, PhD (@ShriyaSrinivas3) Each awardee receives a $300,000 research grant over 3 years, plus leadership training through our Rising Star Leadership Program. The 2026 awardees will also present at our annual Science & Innovation Symposium, during the 32nd One Mind Music Festival this September. Read the full press release: onemind.org/news/one-mind-gr… #MentalHealthResearch #Neuroscience #OneMind #MentalHealth #Research @Columbia @WashU @harvardmed @Harvard @ChildrensPhila

"Disclosure is not the problem. Stigma is." @UmaRChatterjee entered her scientific career already publicly open about her lived experience with serious mental illness. She was warned it would disqualify her from the field. Instead, she became a neuroscience PhD candidate, leading the first known protein-level studies in human OCD brain tissue, board member of the Society for Neuroscience’s Upper Midwest Chapter, and a member of the One Mind Lived Experience Council. In her new essay, "The Cost of Telling the Truth: Disclosure, Serious Mental Illness, and the Systems That Decide Who Belongs," Uma makes a case that goes far beyond her own story: that disclosure without structural support becomes extraction, and that the goal isn't to pressure people to share, it's to build systems where honesty is no longer punished. Read the full piece: onemind.org/lived-experience… #LivedExperience #OneMind #OCD #Depression #Neuroscience

In 2025, Uma R. Chatterjee, an award-winning neuroscientist, science communicator, & mental health advocate, was selected to join the One Mind Lived Experience Council. An NIH TL1 Predoctoral Fellow & PhD candidate in Neuroscience at @UWMadison, @UmaRChatterjee studies the neurobiology of OCD & novel therapeutics. Her work is deeply informed by her lived experience with OCD, PTSD, depression, & bulimia, bringing together cutting-edge research with real-world insight. She serves as President of @OCDWisconsin, a board member of the Society for Neuroscience’s Upper Midwest Chapter (@SfNtweets), and an advocate for @IOCDF. Through global speaking engagements and her podcast A Chat with Uma, she connects science, policy, and lived experience. Launched in 2024, the One Mind Lived Experience Initiative ensures that individuals with lived experience help shape research priorities, workplace frameworks, and innovation strategy, embedding community voice into system level change. Through these efforts, council members are inspiring leaders to foster cultures of acceptance, demonstrating that when people with lived experience are treated with respect and dignity, everyone benefits. Learn more about our Lived Experience Initiative: onemind.org/what-we-do/one-m… #MentalHealth #LivedExperience #Advocacy #OneMind #ShareYourStory #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #MHAM2026 #MentalHealthMonth

Jonathan Swerdlin is a serial entrepreneur and venture investor focused on giving individuals greater control over their health. @swerdlin has helped build and scale multiple ventures and has invested in 100+ early-stage startups focused on consumer health innovation. In 2021, Jonathan co-founded Function Health, a personal health co-pilot that begins with comprehensive lab testing and delivers clear, actionable insights developed with leading physicians. @function was one of 10 companies selected for the 2024 One Mind Accelerator cohort. Since participating, the company has continued to scale rapidly, including raising a $298M Series B to expand access to preventative health insights. The One Mind Accelerator supports founders tackling one of the world’s most complex challenges: mental illness, combining small mission-aligned cohorts with direct access to leaders across neuroscience, health systems, venture capital, and industry. With 51 companies in the portfolio, @OMAccelerator is catalyzing a new generation of mental health innovation. Learn more at onemindaccelerator.com #MentalHealth #Innovation #HealthCare #OneMind #Accelerator #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #MHAM2026 #MentalHealthMonth

In January 2019, a snowboarding accident left Dr. Edward Twomey with a brain bleed and an emergency craniotomy. It also changed the course of his science. 🧠 In the latest post from the One Mind Lived Experience Blog, Dr. Ed Twomey, a neuroscientist and Associate Professor at @HopkinsMedicine (@JohnsHopkins), and 2025 One Mind Rising Star Award recipient, reflects on how his journey through traumatic brain injury and debilitating anxiety redirected and informed his research. Dr. Twomey's work has since uncovered how temperature affects neurotransmitter receptor function, revealed the mechanism behind the brain's primary signaling chemical, and opened a promising new path for neuropsychiatric drug development. "My lived experience changed how I think and changed how I do science," Dr. Twomey writes. "Experience can be heavy but also clarifying." Read the full post: onemind.org/lived-experience… #LivedExperience #MentalHealthAwareness #MentalHealth #MentalHealthMonth #OneMind #Anxiety #TraumaticBrainInjury

This Mental Health Awareness Month we're shining a light on members of our community who are living out the One Mind mission—meet Dr. Joshua Gordon. Joshua A. Gordon, MD, PhD, received a One Mind Rising Star Award in 2010 for his groundbreaking work, investigating the Circuit Basis for Psychiatric Diseases at @Columbia. His research advanced understanding of how genetic mutations and neural circuits contribute to disorders such as schizophrenia, anxiety, and depression—laying foundations for more precise, biologically informed treatments. Today, Dr. Gordon is Chair of Psychiatry at Columbia University and former Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, where he advanced precision medicine and national suicide prevention efforts. For 20 years, the Rising Star Awards have invested in bold ideas and exceptional scientists like Dr. Gordon. Since 2005, One Mind has supported 54 awardees across 37 leading institutions, investing more than $14 million in breakthrough science spanning depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, OCD, and more. Learn more at onemind.org/RSA #Neuroscience #Psychiatry #Psychology #Research #BrainHealth #MentalHealth #Science #OneMind #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #MHAM2026 #MentalHealthMonth

This Mental Health Awareness Month we're spotlighting members of the One Mind community—meet Dr. Kafui Dzirasa. 2013 One Mind Rising Star Award recipient and member of the One Mind Scientific Advisory Board, Dr. @KafuiDzirasa is a brain pacemaker pioneer and health equity advocate. As a Distinguished Professor at @DukeMedSchool, Dr. Dzirasa’s lab is uncovering brain-wide electrical patterns that define emotional states, laying groundwork for neuromodulation-based psychiatric therapies. His research focuses on how disruptions in the brain’s electrical networks affect emotions and contribute to psychiatric disorders. Using innovative tools in psychiatry, neurophysiology, and biomedical engineering, his team studies the unique brain activity patterns linked to emotional states and tests whether restoring healthy brain rhythms can improve mood and behavior. This work is opening new pathways toward treatments for depression and other serious mental health conditions. For 20 years, the Rising Star Awards have invested in bold ideas and exceptional scientists like Dr. Dzirasa. Since 2005, One Mind has supported 54 awardees across 37 leading institutions, investing more than $14 million in breakthrough science spanning depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, OCD, and more. ▶︎ Learn more at onemind.org/RSA #Neuroscience #Psychiatry #Psychology #Research #BrainHealth #MentalHealth #Science #OneMind #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #MHAM2026 #MentalHealthMonth

What if mental health treatment could be guided by the brain’s circuitry? Dr. Moses Lee, a 2025 One Mind Rising Star Award recipient and Assistant Professor at @UCSFPsychiatry (@UCSF) , is part of a growing shift in psychiatry, using brain-based approaches like stimulation and circuit mapping to better understand and treat conditions like OCD. As he notes, these approaches reflect a broader transformation in the field: recognizing mental health conditions as disorders of neural circuits and training the next generation of clinicians to think in these terms, an evolution that has accelerated over just the past 10-20 years. 🌟 Apply for the 2026 One Mind Rising Star Awards: onemind.org/rising-star-awar… 📅 Applications close April 27, 2026 by 9PM PT 🎥 Watch the full interview: piped.video/watch?v=ingXEQ42… #MentalHealth #ResearchFunding #Neuroscience #Psychiatry #EarlyCareerResearchers #MentalHealthResearch

What if we could better understand how the brain changes, not just in illness, but across the course of our lives? 🧠 Dr. Annegret Falkner, a 2025 One Mind Rising Star Award recipient and Assistant Professor at @PrincetonNeuro (@Princeton), is developing tools to track how brain activity evolves as hormone levels shift, helping move the field toward more dynamic, real-time insights into mental health. Her work also points toward a broader future: understanding how these biological changes shape not only vulnerability to mood disorders, but also cognitive function during healthy aging. 🌟 Apply for the 2026 One Mind Rising Star Awards: onemind.org/rising-star-awar… 📅 Applications close April 27, 2026 by 9PM PT 🎥 Watch the full interview: piped.video/watch?v=qfRAjgO9… #MentalHealth #ResearchFunding #Neuroscience #Psychiatry #EarlyCareerResearchers #MentalHealthResearch

Understanding depression starts with understanding motivation. 🧠 Dr. Neir Eshel, a 2025 One Mind Rising Star Award recipient and Assistant Professor at @Stanford, studies the brain circuits that regulate motivation, one of the most disabling features of depression. Using clinical research alongside animal models, his work connects observable symptoms with the underlying neural activity that drives them. Dr. Eshel’s perspective highlights a broader need in the field: bridging insights from brain science with clinical practice to ensure discoveries meaningfully improve patient care. 🌟 Apply for the 2026 One Mind Rising Star Awards: onemind.org/rising-star-awar… 📅 Applications close April 27, 2026 by 9PM PT 🎥 Watch the full interview with Dr. Eshel & One Mind CEO Kathleen M Pike, PhD: piped.video/watch?v=_t7UZVSz… #MentalHealth #ResearchFunding #Neuroscience #Psychiatry #EarlyCareerResearchers #MentalHealthResearch

🚨 Apply for the 2026 One Mind Rising Star Awards 🚨 Recipients receive: ▶︎ $300,000 in research funding ▶︎ Access to a network of industry leaders ▶︎ Participation in the One Mind Science Leaders Program ▶︎ The opportunity to present at the 2026 Science & Innovation Symposium This program supports early-career investigators advancing innovative research in mental health. Learn more and apply here: onemind.org/rising-star-awar… 📅 Applications close April 27, 2026 by 9PM PT #MentalHealth #ResearchFunding #Neuroscience #Psychiatry #EarlyCareerResearchers #MentalHealthResearch

🌟 Applications are open for the 2026 One Mind Rising Star Awards. Apply today at onemind.org/RSA. The Rising Star Awards fund early-career investigators conducting innovative, high-risk, high-reward research on the causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental health conditions. Dr. Edward Twomey, a 2025 One Mind Rising Star Award recipient and Assistant Professor of Biophysics, Biophysical Chemistry, & Neuroscience at @HopkinsMedicine, examines how neurons communicate at the most fundamental level. Using a technique called cryo-electron microscopy, his lab studies how disruptions in these molecular systems contribute to psychiatric and neurological disorders. By revealing how neurons communicate at the molecular level, this work is laying the groundwork for new therapies to restore and preserve brain function. 🎥 Watch the full interview with Dr. Twomey & One Mind CEO Kathleen M. Pike: piped.video/emLBWpZUg8g #MentalHealth #ResearchFunding #Neuroscience #Psychiatry #EarlyCareerResearchers #MentalHealthResearch

🌟 Apply for the 2026 One Mind Rising Star Awards! The program provides $300,000 in funding to support early-career investigators advancing breakthroughs in #neuroscience, #psychiatry, #psychology, & related fields. Dr. Moses Lee is a 2025 One Mind Rising Star Award recipient and psychiatrist & neuroscientist at @UCSF (@UCSFPsychiatry). His research focuses on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) & uses brain stimulation technologies, such as deep brain stimulation (DBS) & transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), to map & target the neural circuits that drive clinical symptoms in OCD. Improving detection & diagnosis of OCD-related disorders can enable earlier intervention & better outcomes for individuals & communities. Apply for the 2026 Rising Star Awards by April 27, 2026: onemind.org/rising-star-awar… Watch the full interview: piped.video/ingXEQ42kCM #MentalHealth #ResearchFunding #ResearchGrants #MentalHealthResearch #OneMind #Leadership #OCD

🌟 Applications are still open for the 2026 One Mind Rising Star Awards! Curious about the kind of research this program supports? Meet Dr. Annegret Falkner, a 2025 One Mind Rising Star Award recipient. Dr. Falkner studies how shifts in #hormones, including estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone, influence brain activity, mood, and behavior. Her research focuses on how these biological changes create windows of vulnerability for conditions like #depression. With support from One Mind, her lab is developing new tools to track these changes in real time, helping bring greater precision to how we understand and treat mood disorders. 🎥 Watch the full interview with Dr. Falkner and One Mind CEO Dr. Kathleen M. Pike: piped.video/qfRAjgO9MK4 📅 Inspired by research like this? Apply for the 2026 One Mind Rising Star Awards by April 27, 2026 by 9PM PT. Learn more here: onemind.org/rising-star-awar… #MentalHealth #ResearchFunding #Neuroscience #Psychiatry #EarlyCareerResearchers #MentalHealthResearch

Supporting innovative early-career scientists like Dr. Laura Berner (@SinaiBrain @MountSinaiPsych) is exactly why One Mind created the Rising Star Awards. 🌟 The One Mind Rising Star Awards provide $300,000 in funding to support early-career investigators advancing groundbreaking research in #neuroscience, #psychology, #psychiatry, and related fields. Dr. Berner, a 2025 One Mind Rising Star Award recipient, focuses her research on eating disorders such as binge eating disorder & bulimia nervosa. Using wearable brain-imaging technology & personalized neurofeedback approaches, she studies the brain circuits involved in self-control to better understand the mechanisms behind these behaviors. This work is opening new pathways for brain-based treatments that help people with eating disorders regain control over their behavior and improve recovery outcomes. 📅 If you're working to transform how we understand & treat brain & mental health conditions, we encourage you to apply for a 2026 One Mind Rising award. Submit your application by April 27: onemind.org/rising-star-awar… 🎥 Watch the full interview with Dr. Berner: piped.video/yDStULYrXH0 #MentalHealth #ResearchFunding #Neuroscience #Psychiatry #EarlyCareerResearchers #MentalHealthResearch

🚨 Applications are open for the 2026 Rising Star Awards! 🚨 Are you an early-career researcher working to transform mental health? The One Mind Rising Star Awards provide $300,000 in research funding to support breakthrough work in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental health conditions. But it’s more than a grant. Awardees also join our Science Leaders Program, gaining training in: ✅ Leadership ✅ Communication ✅ Entrepreneurship ✅ Translating research into real-world impact If you're ready to accelerate your work—and your influence—this is for you. Apply now: onemind.org/what-we-do/one-m… #MentalHealth #ResearchFunding #Neuroscience #Psychiatry #EarlyCareerResearchers #MentalHealthResearch

✨ One Mind is now accepting applications for the 2026 Rising Star Awards! ✨ The Rising Star Awards support early-career scientific investigators with $300,000 research grants to fuel breakthroughs in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental health conditions. In addition to the grant, award recipients receive access to our Science Leaders Program, which equips awardees with leadership, communication, entrepreneurship, and systems-level skills needed to translate discovery into action and influence policy, practice, and public trust. Apply for an award on our website: onemind.org/what-we-do/one-m… #MentalHealth #Research #FundingOp #MentalHealthResearch #MHResearch #PsychScience #Psychiatry #Neuroscience