Johns Hopkins Schizophrenia Center 8th Annual Symposium
June 12, 2026
Johns Hopkins Schizophrenia Center’s annual symposium convenes leading international experts in psychiatry, mental health, and neuroscience to showcase diverse aspects of the disorder, disseminate and discuss their findings and respond to attendees’ questions. This year’s presentations will highlight multidisciplinary approaches, spanning advanced clinical psychiatry, psychopharmacology, neurobiology, epidemiology, and public outreach. We will also hold a round-table lunch discussions with the speakers.
Through this symposium, we aim to translate laboratory discoveries into clinical practice and, ultimately, into broader societal impact by addressing schizophrenia and other mental illnesses from both scientific and clinical perspectives.
The symposium is open to all: researchers, clinicians, and family members of those diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Speakers
John M. Kane
Co-Director, Institute of Behavioral Science, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
Professor, Psychiatry and Molecular Medicine, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Elisabeth Binder
Director, Department Genes and Environment
Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
Preben Bo Mortensen
Professor, National Centre for Register-based Research, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark
Randye Kaye
Author, Podcaster and Mother
Schizophrenia Podcast Three Moms in Trenches: Lab Bench to Bedside: Research and Partnership in Schizophrenia Treatment -Ep. 96
Hosts of Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the Trenches Podcast, Randye Kaye and Miriam Feldman, discuss with guest, Laura Pogliano, their takeaways from the Johns Hopkins Schizophrenia Symposium 2024.
Randye Kaye, Ambassador for the Johns Hopkins Schizophrenia Symposium
