Ms. REN Qian, a final 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 2026 Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS) Congress. She has made a poster presentation at the SIRS 2026 Congress in Florence, Italy, from March 25th to March 29th, on the title of “Aberrant cerebellar involvement in sequence prediction in schizophrenia: A task-based fMRI study”. There is a total of 80 Early Career Awards granted in 2026. This is the twelfth time of the NACN Lab to receive similar kind of awards for their outstanding schizophrenia research findings.

Moreover, Prof. LUI Simon (former graduate 2012) and Dr. WANG Ling-ling (former graduate 2023) of Dr. Chan’s doctoral students, and Mr. LI Shuaibiao also made posters presentation on a wide range of topics including prospective memory, range adaptation and emotion expressivity in schizophrenia spectrum disorders.

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.