Mr. HUANG Yi-hang, a third-year doctoral student under the supervision of Dr. Raymond Chan from the Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience (NACN) Laboratory, the Institute of Psychology has recently received the Early Career Award of the 2025 Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS) Congress.He has made a poster presentation at the SIRS 2025 Congress in Chicago, United States March 29th to April 2nd, on the title of “Disruptions in Intersubject Variability of Functional Connectomes across Schizophrenia, Major Depressive Disorder, and Bipolar Disorder”.

Moreover, Dr. WANG Ling-ling, a former graduate (2023) of Dr. Chan’s doctoral student now working in the School of Psychology of Shanghai Normal University, also received such an award and made her poster presentation, titled “Altered adaptive coding activation in posterior mid-cingulate cortex in people with schizotypal traits, subthreshold depression and autistic traits”. There are a total of 40 Early Career Awards granted in 2025. This is the eleventh time of the NACN Lab to receive similar kind of awards for their outstanding schizophrenia research findings.

The SIRS is the most important conference in the field of schizophrenia research. For the past few years, over a thousand of researchers and scientists came from different countries attended each conference and exchange their data, techniques and ideas, which helped to facilitate the scientific research and clinical treatments.