James Kirk Bernard Foundation Award for Excellence in the Biological Exploration of Suicide

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The research mission of the James Kirk Bernard Foundation is to explore the biology of suicide in order to identify biological risk factors and pathways involved in suicide behavior

Award winners

2023

Milenna van Dijk, Ph.D.

Columbia University


2021

Nikolaj Kjær Høier

Danish Research Institute for Suicide Prevention


Arthur Ryan

2020

Arthur Ryan, Ph.D.
Baltimore VA Medical Center

For his presentation: Latent Class Profiles of Serum Fatty Acids are Associated with Risk of Suicide in Military Personnel