The F30 Grant is a prestigious award granted by the NIH “to enhance the integrated research and clinical training of promising predoctoral students, who are matriculated in a combined MD/PhD or other dual-doctoral degree training program (e.g. DDS/PhD, AuD/PhD, DVM/PhD), and who intend careers as physician-scientists or other clinician-scientists”.
SCP Lab’s very own Emily Przysinda (combined MD/PhD student) has been awarded the F30 grant to pursue research aimed at better understanding language and social processing in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a debilitating and complex disorder with many symptoms, including distorted perception disrupted social information processing. Emily’s proposal uses naturalistic videos along with two complementary neuroimaging methods to examine how language deficits might interact with social processing deficits. Understanding the neural correlates of language and social processing during naturalistic stimuli will be a step forward towards finding biomarkers of severe mental illness and ultimately improving patient care.
Congrats Emily and good luck with your research!