SBDL Research Assistant Zibby Lunger was recently a recipient of the Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship, co-mentored by graduate student Brooke Sasia and lab director Dr. James Li! This competitive award provides support for students to engage in a mentored research project. We are so proud of Zibby and can’t wait to see the work that …
Congratulations to Brooke on matching with the UCSF Child and Adolescent Services (CAS) Multicultural Clinical Training Program (MCTP)! The MCTP is embedded in the Division of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in UCSF’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. This one-year clinical residency begins in fall 2026 and will …
Dr. Li was selected to receive a Vilas Associates Award. This highly coveted and competitive award, made possible by The Vilas Trustees, recognizes new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance. Congratulations, Dr. Li!
A huge congratulations to our incredible PI, Dr. James Li, who was just promoted to Full Professor! This is a well-deserved and high honor and we are so excited. Here is some of what the Dean of College of Letters & Science, Eric M. Wilcots, had to say about Dr. Li: “…You have become a …
Congratulations to Brooke and LiChen who recently presented at the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (ISRCAP) Conference in Vancouver!
Qi graduated with her PhD in May 2024 and is currently a Research Fellow in the Department of Psychology, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Nanjing University—one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in China. Her research focuses on the mechanisms and influencing factors of mental health development, with a particular interest in …
Congratulations to Drs. James Li and Frank He for their recent paper published in the Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, titled “Enhancing the discriminatory power of polygenic scores for ADHD and autism in clinical and non-clinical samples“!
Dr. Li was recently interviewed by Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR) to discuss ADHD medications and the scientific evidence behind them. Click here to give it a listen!
A huge congrats to Frank, who defended his dissertation this week and graduated with his PhD! His dissertation was titled “Measurement Equivalence of a Clinical Interview of Youth Mental Disorders across Race and Ethnicity: Testing the Role of Socioeconomic Factors.” He is now moving to Dallas to become an Assistant Professor at Southern Methodist University. …
Congratulations to Brooke, who has just been awarded the prestigious Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship by the Waisman Center. These competitive awards are given to graduate students working with a Waisman principal investigator and supports research, training, and tuition remission for a nine-month academic year. “The Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowships program was created in 1997 through …
