Montefiore Einstein Celebrates Opening of Psychiatry Research Institute

Prime wall sign

Last month, the official opening of the Psychiatry Research Institute at Montefiore Einstein (PRIME) was celebrated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new offices and research space on the Einstein campus along with a symposium and poster session featuring research by its basic, translational and clinical experts.

Jonathan Alpert, MD, PhD
Jonathan Alpert, MD, PhD

If we’ve learned anything from the horrors of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as from the pandemics of racism and hate, it’s the urgency of our institute’s mission to advance knowledge and treatment discovery related to mental illness, addiction and behavioral health.

Jonathan Alpert, MD, PhD

We can study circuits both in humans and in animals, we can study pharmacology in both, we can look at different brain oscillations and network activities. It has become much easier to devise programs that join forces, uniting the preclinical and clinical research to advance the field.

Jelena Radulovic, MD, PhD
Aaron Breslow, PhD
Aaron Breslow, PhD
Rachel Ross, MD, PhD
Rachel Ross, MD, PhD

This is where the edge is going, of trying to figure out the genetic architecture, the basic psychobiology to figure out if there’s any way we can get better treatments based on the science rather than just serendipity.

Andrew Nierenberg, MD ’80