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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
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2023
Milenna van Dijk, Ph.D.
Columbia University
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2021
Nikolaj Kjær Høier
Danish Research Institute for Suicide Prevention
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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