Launched in the summer of 2025 and closed on September 1, 2025, the PEPR PROPSY Postdoctoral Grants call for proposals aims to support ambitious research projects in precision psychiatry, in line with the program’s scientific priorities.
Find the full description of the call for proposals here.
Eligible applications were evaluated by an international panel of experts, which met on December 8, 2025, to review the projects and rank them based on their scientific excellence, originality, and relevance to the objectives of the PEPR PROPSY program.
1️⃣ equally ranked – Insulabiome : Microbiome Contributions to the Obesity-induced Anxio-depressive Phenotype via the Insular Cortex.
1️⃣ equally ranked – DeSCAN4 : NPAS4 and Stress-Primed Brain Circuits : Mapping and Modulating Vulnerability to Depression.
2️⃣ INPSY : Immune profiling for dimensional classification in transnosographic psychiatry.
3️⃣ MethylPsy : Methylomic biomarkers of psychiatric disorders.
4️⃣ PRISM : Psychotherapy Response Imaging for Social and Motivational Symptoms in Schizophrenia (PRISM): A multimodal neuroimaging study of apathy and social withdrawal in fronto-striatal networks.
5️⃣ IMPRID-PSY : Immuno-Metabolic Profiling, Immune Dysregulation and Viral Infection Related to Psychiatric Disorders.
6️⃣ ASTROGEN-VAS : The effect of impaired astrogenesis on neurovascular function in schizophrenia.
7️⃣ STRASD : Understanding the role of the striatum in ASD etiology through the development of novel cerebral organoids.
8️⃣ AstroDoPsy : Targeting astrocyte reactivity to restore dopaminergic functions in schizophrenia.
9️⃣ Oxytocin-like : Oxytocin-binding IgG and oxytocin-like bacterial proteins as putative biomarkers of social dysfunction in autism.
🔟 NARA : Novel Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Autoantibodies as Biomarkers and Therapeutic Targets in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder.
1️⃣1️⃣ HERMES : High-resolution EEG for Examining Responses and Mapping of Exteroceptive and Self-perceptive Processing across Psychotic, Affective, and Autism Spectrum Disorders.
1️⃣2️⃣ MIND-Lifestyle : From Lifestyle Behaviors to Psychiatric Disorders: The Mediating Role of Inflammation in the Development of Mental Health Outcomes in Children and Adolescents.
1️⃣3️⃣ SURIQUAT : SUicide RIsk stratification through QUalitative speech analysis and Artificial Intelligence Tools.
SOTOUCH : SOcial TOUCH in resilience to depression.
DYNACOPE : Decoding individual dynamics underlying threat response and maladaptive coping.
LHESA : Lateral Hypothalamus in Emotional State and Affect.
TraumaBinoid : Investigation of cannabinoid type-1 receptors in PTSD-like traumatic memory as key players and potential targets.
CALYPSO-NEURAL : Neuropsychiatric Evaluation Using Rich Assessments and Longitudinal Data.
FND CARPE DIEM : Functional Neurological Disorder, Childhood Adversity & Repeated Psychotraumatic Events: Discerning the Impact of Environmental & Epigenetic Modulating Mechanisms.