NEW YORK, NY –
Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) and its Co-President, Andreas Dracopoulos, were honored by Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at its annual Crown Awards Gala -its signature fundraising event- on November 18, in recognition of their support in establishing the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for Precision Psychiatry & Mental Health at Columbia University.
“The SNF Center seeks to harness advances in genetics, biology, and other scientific fields that are aligning to offer doctors the possibility of better understanding the underlying causes of severe mental illness. It aims to pioneer new paradigms of mental health research, whose benefits are shared widely, and of mental health treatment, whose methods are individualized and potentially lifechanging”, SNF notes in an announcement.
“This endeavor could not be more important for our local and national communities at this moment and will catalyze the scientific innovation and clinical implementation of precision medicine to advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illness”, says the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons in a press release.
The center, officially launched in 2023, represents a collaboration between the Department of Psychiatry at Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Columbia’s Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, as well as the Columbia-affiliated New York Genome Center and the New York State Office of Mental Health.
