Headshot of Erin Ross smiling outdoors wearing a blue blazer over a white blouse.
📢 We're excited to welcome Erin Ross, BD²’s Director of Operations.
Erin brings deep experience in science philanthropy and operations, and she will help align strategy and execution to advance bipolar disorder research.
Welcome, Erin!
What’s next for addiction medicine and recovery care?
Emily Baxi, PhD—BD²’s IN Program Director—joins leaders in science, policy, and patient advocacy at Hope on the Horizon.
Hosted by @sciam.bsky.social Custom Media + WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute
April 22 | DC
🔗 luma.com/hopeonhorizon
🧬 What’s powering the next wave of bipolar disorder research?
Investigators across the BD² network are exploring bioenergetics, organoids, proteomics, and new shared data—working toward a future where everyone with bipolar disorder can thrive. Hear from a few of them at our latest Poster Session. 🎥
When clinicians and researchers work together toward the goal of improving lives for those with #bipolardisorder, collaboration shifts how research progresses. Hear from Tracy Young-Pearse, PhD, on BD²'s integrated approach in the latest #InvestigatorInsights. 🧠
🔬Our network is doing amazing work! Learn more about what the CircaVent team is doing to drive discovery in #bipolar research.
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Bipolar disorder research has long been slowed by fragmented data.
BD²’s first Integrated Network data release helps change that, bringing together rich, longitudinal data to support more connected, collaborative discovery.
🔗See what more connected data unlocks: bit.ly/4tF5f9N
Katharina Meyer is welcoming. She's a great host & collaborates with members of the multidisciplinary CircaVent Team. They are developing brain organoids to study bipolar disorder to identify better therapeutics. Learn more about Katharina & her work in this month’s #HOWyss. #WorldBipolarDay
On #WorldBipolarDay, we've released the largest integrated dataset in psychiatry and created a new cornerstone for #bipolar research.
Clinical, imaging, wearable, and biological data—combined longitudinally and standardized across sites. 🧠📈 🧪
Learn more: www.bipolardiscoveries.org/our-work/dat...
Be sure to tune in at 1pm PT/4pm ET today to hear BD² CEO Cara Altimus speak at the UCLA Brain Health Summit! www.youtube.com/live/GiUU8ge...
Watch the full conversation on women’s mental health www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi-E...
🧠 Women’s mental health research has historically been underfunded and underprioritized, with much of women’s health research focused on obstetrics and gynecology. This #WomensHistoryMonth, BD²’s Women’s Health Workgroup is helping close gaps by studying how bipolar disorder can differ in women.
Members of the BD² network standing outside with the ocean in the background, smiling and wearing colorful BD² branded hats during the Investigators Meeting.
🧠🔬Last week, 150 members of the BD² network convened for our 3rd annual Investigators Meeting. From genetics and brain circuits to whole-body health, we are uniting science and community to turn breakthroughs into improved care for people living with bipolar disorder.
What’s next in bipolar disorder research, and how do we get discoveries into care faster?
We’re launching #InvestigatorInsights, a new series featuring researchers and investigators across the BD² Network. Hear from Lisa Eyler, PhD, about how BD² is moving insights into action. 🧠
Watch the full conversation from BD²’s Women’s Health Workgroup www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi-E...
Sex and gender differences in bipolar disorder have only been more clearly defined in the past two decades.
This #WomensHistoryMonth, listen to Aysegul Ozerdem, MD, PhD share a snapshot of how research in women’s mental health, including perinatal bipolar disorder, has evolved. 👩🔬
🎥 Last month, Laureate Institute for Brain Research welcomed BD² SSC member and Integrated Network co-chair Mark Frye, MD for a lecture on precision medicine in #BipolarDisorder and depression.
Women’s mental health in Bipolar Disorder has long been underprioritized. On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the BD² Women’s Health Workgroup explores what inclusive research can unlock and how to better support and elevate women in the field 🧠📈
🔗 bit.ly/3M4CvXT
🎬 bit.ly/3ZvwJBu
🎥 Video courtesy of The Conn Job podcast
BD² joined The Conn Job podcast to talk about what’s next for #BipolarDisorder research.
From brain omics and AI to large-scale collaboration, the conversation explores how psychiatry is moving beyond trial-and-error toward a more precise, data-driven future—grounded in hope 🧠📈
🎧: bit.ly/3Mm86En
📢 Milestone for bipolar disorder research! The BD² Integrated Network Longitudinal Cohort Protocol is now live: laying the foundation for the largest, most comprehensive prospective study in bipolar disorder and a new model for linking research directly to care. 📄🧪
🔗 bit.ly/451Bg1R
Five attendees at the ACNP Annual Meeting standing together and smiling: Daniel Pham, Cara Altimus, Sylvie Raver, Brandon Staglin, Emily Baxi, and Tahilia Rebello. The group is gathered in a conference setting.
Panel discussion at the ACNP Annual Meeting titled “Neuroimaging-Guided Precision Brain Targeting in Mood Disorders.” Panelists are standing by the stage, including chair Hilary Blumberg (center) and speakers Anjali Sankar, Helen Mayberg, Mary Phillips, and Conor Liston.
Conference photo of Daniel Pham, Sylvie Raver, and Emily Baxi standing with researcher Kate Burdick at the ACNP Annual Meeting.
Photo of a presentation slide shown during the ACNP President’s Plenary listing ACNP Advocacy Affiliates.
Great to be part of the @acnporg.bsky.social Annual Meeting last week!
BD² team members and researchers joined scientists to discuss advances in precision psychiatry and neuroimaging-guided brain targeting.
Proud to connect with partners advancing bipolar disorder research. 📈🧠
#ACNP2026
@dr-altimusprime.bsky.social @emilybaxi.bsky.social @dpham0.bsky.social @careevolution.com
Five panelists sit on stage in armchairs during a discussion at the Milken Institute Asia Summit 2025. A teal backdrop behind them reads “Asia Summit 2025: Progress with Purpose—Collaboration Amid Complexity,” with Milken Institute logos.
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Four people stand smiling and pointing toward a research poster displayed on a conference poster board. The poster is titled “Innovative Mechanisms to Build a Collaborative Community within BD²: Breakthrough Discoveries for Thriving with Bipolar Disorder” and includes diagrams, charts, and text blocks.
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As we close 2025, we’re reflecting on a pivotal year built on years of research, collaboration, and commitment.
We’re thankful to the global BD² community, researchers, clinicians, and participants, whose work continues to drive discovery forward 💙
#BipolarDisorder #MentalHealthResearch
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What did BD² achieve in 2025?
New data. Deeper partnerships. Global collaboration 🧪
Dive into our 2025 Milestone Report today!
🔗 bit.ly/496yqL7
#BipolarDisorder #Neuroscience #OpenScience #Research
We're closing out 2025 with momentum: Our milestone report captures major scientific advances across BD² programs—and the growing global community driving the work 🧪
Explore the progress shaping the future of #BipolarDisorder research.
🔗 bit.ly/496yqL7
#MentalHealth #OpenScience
@sinaibrain.bsky.social @angelaradulescu.bsky.social
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🧪 Research Spotlight: @ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will study brain activity in people with #BipolarDisorder during manic & depressive shifts
👉 Goal: Identify patterns that could guide new treatments with targeted brain stimulation.
🔗 bit.ly/4gTbBwU
A studio photo of three people seated behind a news-style desk on the set of An Hour to Give. The host, Sam Laprade, CFRE, sits on the left holding papers, with two guests, Cara Altimus, PhD, and Jess Fiedorowicz, MD, PhD, smiling beside her. A screen behind them displays the show’s logo, and the BD² banner reading “BD² on An Hour to Give: Advancing Care Through Collaboration” appears along the bottom.
A blue graphic featuring a large quotation mark icon and a pull quote about collaboration in bipolar disorder research. On the right side is a circular headshot of Cara Altimus, PhD, smiling. Her name and title, BD² Managing Director, appear beneath the quote.
A blue graphic with a quotation mark icon and a pull quote describing the five-year longitudinal cohort study within the BD² Integrated Network. On the right side is a circular headshot of Jess Fiedorowicz, MD, PhD, smiling. His name and title, Lead Principal Investigator at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, appear below the quote.
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On An Hour To Give, @dr-altimusprime.bsky.social and Jess Fiedorowicz, MD, PhD, join host Sam Laprade to share how BD² and @ottawahospital.on.ca are advancing scientific understanding so that all people with bipolar disorder can lead thriving lives.
📺: bit.ly/4o6dwQE
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