Awards are given to help early career professionals with a research interest in anxiety  disorders and depression such as basic and clinical neurobiology and psychopharmacology, clinical psychology, genetics, neuroimaging, epidemiology, and public health, as well as other areas.

The awards also familiarize and engage aspiring professionals with the membership and work of the association.

Congratulations to the winners:

2013

Christal Badour, MA, University of Arkansas; Joe Bardeen, MA, Northern Illinois University; Kristy Benoit, MS, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Michelle Burns, PhD, Northwestern University; Amanda Calkins, MA, Boston University Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders; Samantha Farris, MA, University of Houston; Ebony Glover, PhD, Emory University School of Medicine; Araceli Gonzalez, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles; Torsten Klengel, MD, Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry; Joshua Magee, PhD, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine; Sergey Sotnikov, MS, Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry; Jonathan Stange, MA, Temple University; Lisa Starr, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles; Chad Sylvester, MD, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine; Candyce Tart, PhD, Raymond G. Murphy VA Medical Center; David Zepeda, PhD
Northeastern University

2012

First row, from left: Robin Leora Aupperle, PhD, University of Missouri; Terri Barrera, MA, University of Houston; Jacqueline Clauss, BA, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Kristen Ellard, MA, Boston University/Massachusetts General Hospital

Second row, from left: Negar Fani, PhD, Emory University; Marcelo Hoexter, MD, PhD, University of São Paulo Medical School; Brian Iacoviello, PhD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Jennifer Robinson, MA, University of Manitoba

Bottom: Emily Rosenberger, BA, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Not pictured: Jessica Bomyea, BA, San Diego University/University of California, San Diego; Nicole Caporino, PhD, Temple University; Katharina Kircanski, PhD, Stanford University; Teresa Leyro, BA, University of California, San Francisco; Christine Rabinak, PhD, VA Healthcare System, Michigan

2011

Susanne E. Ahmari, MD, PhD, Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute
Kimberly A. Babson, MA, University of Washington
Courtney Beard, PhD, Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Eric Bui, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Laboratoire du Stress Traumatique
Helen Dodd, PhD, Macquarie University
Elizabeth A. Gordon, MA, Temple University
Matthew A. Jarrett, PhD, University of Alabama
Meghan E. Keough, MS, Florida State University
D. Jolene Kinley, MA, University of Manitoba
Erin C. Marshall-Berenz, BA, University of Mississippi Medical Center
Lauren M. McGrath, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Takeshi Otowa, MD, PhD; Virginia Commonwealth University
Giovanni A. Salum, MD, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Emily R. Stern, PhD, University of Michigan
Andres G. Viana, MS, University of Mississippi Medical Center
K. Lira Yoon, PhD, University of Maine

2010

Ananda Amstadter, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina
Kelsey Collimore, MA, University of Regina
Sophie Alice George, PhD, University of Michigan
Neda Gould, PhD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Amanda Guyer, PhD, University of California, Davis
Anneke Haddad, DPhil, University of Oxford
Anthony King, PhD, University of Michigan Medical School
Jonathan Burke Kelley, BA, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Heide Klumpp, PhD, University of Michigan
Nicole McLaughlin, PhD, Butler Hospital/Albert Medical School of Brown University
Robert Pietrzak, PhD, MPH, National Center for PTSD/VA Connecticut Healthcare System/Yale School of Medicine
Rebecca Price, MS, Rutgers University
Casey Schofield, MA, Binghamton University
Leah Somerville, PhD, Sackler Institute of Developmental Psychobiology
Jeffrey Strawn, MD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Paul Gerson Unschuld, MD, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
Ilan Wald, MA, Tel Aviv University
Bethany Wangelin, MS, University of Florida

2009

Katja Beesdo, PhD, Technische Universitaet Dresden
Shay-Lee Belik, MA, University of Manitoba
Julia Buckner, PhD, Louisiana State University
Gregory Chasson, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital
Stacy Drury, MD, PhD, Tulane University School of Medicine
Angelika Erhart, MD, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
Miguel Fullana, PhD, Unitat D'Ansietat IAPS Hospital del Mar
Sarah Garfinkel, PhD, University of Michigan
Andrew Gilbert, MD, University of Pittsburgh
Tanja Jovanovich, PhD, Emory University School of Medicine
Hanjoo Lee, MA, University of Texas at Austin
Karen Martinez, MD, University of Puerto Rico
Kiara Timpano, MA, Massachusetts General Hospital