International Awards Dinner 2025

Friday, October 24, 2025, 6:30 pm EDT
International Awards Dinner 2025
International Awards Dinner 2025

Friday, October 24, 2025
6:30PM EDT - Cocktails
7:30PM EDT - Dinner

The Pierre
2 East 61st Street, New York City, 10065

The evening includes a presentation of the Pardes Humanitarian Prize in Mental Health and the Outstanding Achievement Prizewinners.

Pardes Humanitarian Prize in Mental Health

This international Prize recognizes a physician, scientist, public citizen or organization whose extraordinary contribution has made a profound impact on advancing the understanding of mental health and providing hope and healing for people who are living with mental illness. Established in 2014 and awarded annually, the Pardes Humanitarian Prize is named in honor of Dr. Herbert Pardes, the first recipient of the award.

This year’s Awards ceremony will honor MotherHope Indonesia with the 2025 Pardes Humanitarian Prize in Mental Health.

The ceremony will also include a special tribute to honorary Pardes Prize winner, Tamar and Milton Maltz.

Outstanding Achievement Prizes

The Outstanding Achievement Prizes are awarded annually to celebrate the transformative power of neuroscience and psychiatric research to improve the lives of those living with mental illness and include the Lieber Prize for Schizophrenia Research, Maltz Prize for Innovative & Promising Schizophrenia Research, Colvin Prize for Mood Disorders Research, Ruane Prize for Childhood & Adolescent Psychiatric Research, and the Goldman-Rakic Prize for Cognitive Neuroscience.

Selected by BBRF's Scientific Council, the Foundation’s Outstanding Achievement Prizes honor scientists for their achievements in brain and behavior research. 

LIEBER PRIZE: Outstanding Achievement in Schizophrenia Research

  • Daniel C. Javitt, M.D., Ph.D., Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research / Columbia University

MALTZ PRIZE: Innovative & Promising Schizophrenia Research

  • Antigona Martinez, Ph.D., Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research / Columbia University

COLVIN PRIZE: Outstanding Achievement in Mood Disorders Research

  • Ole A. Andreassen, M.D. Ph.D., University of Oslo / Oslo University Hospital

RUANE PRIZE: Outstanding Achievement in Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Research

  • Luis Augusto Paim Rohde, M.D., Ph.D., Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil / Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

GOLDMAN-RAKIC PRIZE: Outstanding Achievement in Cognitive Neuroscience Research

  • Joseph LeDoux, Ph.D., New York University / NYU Langone