2025 Scientific Research Award
Andrew A. Nierenberg, MD will receive the NAMI Scientific Research Award at the Inspiring Hope Through Research event on Thursday, September 4 in Washington, D.C.
This year’s event will mark the 21st anniversary of the presentation of the award. Dr. Nierenberg joins an illustrious group of former award recipients whose leadership and innovations continue to make a difference in the lives of those affected by mental illness.
About the Honoree
Andrew A. Nierenberg, MD is the Director of the Dauten Family Center for Bipolar Treatment Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital, holds the Thomas P. Hackett, MD Endowed Chair at MGH, and is a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. In addition to directing the Dauten Center, Dr. Nierenberg is the co-director of the MGH Center for Clinical Research Education and an associate director of the Depression Clinical and Research Program.
Dr. Nierenberg focuses on clinical trials for bipolar disorder and depression, all with a focus on improving clinical care. He has published over 615 published papers with a Google Scholar h-index of over 130 (meaning 130 papers have been cited by other authors at least 130 times). Clinically, he has been listed among The Best Doctors or Top Doctors in America for treating mood and anxiety disorders yearly since 1994. He has been honored with multiple awards including the International Society for Bipolar Disorders Mogens Schou Award for Research and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation’s Colvin Prize.
Dr. Nierenberg is currently the PI of the Sequential Multiple Assignment of Treatment study for bipolar depression (SMART-BD) (that compares treatments for bipolar depression) funded by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). He is also leading the Bipolar Action Network, a Learning Health Network of multiple healthcare systems, that breaks down the barriers between clinical, research, and quality improvement activities to get better outcomes. Dr. Nierenberg has an active clinical practice, supervises and teaches residents, lectures national and internationally, serves on multiple non-profit advocacy group boards and numerous journal editorial boards, and is the editor-in-chief of the CME journal Psychiatric Annals.
The Scientific Research Award is supported by the Peter Corbin Kohn Endowment, established in 2013 by Jutta and George Childs Kohn in loving memory of their son, Peter.
