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Building a More Connected Future of Mental Health
In 2025, One Mind expanded its impact
There’s an opportunity to change that
by convening the inaugural Summit on the
by using new approaches and AI to detect
Future of Mental Health Research in Napa,
patterns from a person’s genetic makeup,
California, with support from Bristol
brain scan results, and even smartwatch
Myers Squibb.
readings. This will help predict who
might develop a condition and when, and
Leveraging its unique position as a trusted
identify interventions before symptoms
convener across the mental health
become serious.
ecosystem, this invitation-only gathering
brought together more than 120 leaders
2. Faster Therapeutic Discovery and
from academia, industry, philanthropy, and
Clinical Trials
the lived experience community, including
Developing new mental health treatments
20 Rising Star Awardees, to shape a shared
has been slow and expensive. By developing
vision for the next decade of brain and
shared research infrastructure, standardized
mental health research.
data platforms that facilitate data sharing,
and modernizing regulatory pathways and
Participants agreed that the next era of
approvals, we can accelerate the pipeline
mental health research depends on more
and get treatments to patients sooner.
than scienti昀椀c excellence. It requires
new models of collaboration, investment,
3. Precision Therapeutics
and innovation. It also needs a research
Treatments for a diagnosis like ‘depression’
approach shaped directly by the people it
can work for one person but not for another.
is meant to serve.
By identifying biologically meaningful
subtypes of mental illness within these
During the gathering, several ambitious
broad categories, we can match treatments
opportunities emerged that have the
to a patient’s speci昀椀c physiology rather
potential to transform the 昀椀eld over the
than broad diagnostic categories, much like
next decade:
oncology targets speci昀椀c tumor types rather
than treating the disease generically.
1. Early Detection and Precision Prevention
Through Multimodal Biomarkers
4. A Shift From Treatment to Prevention
Mental health conditions are often
Mental health care has long focused on
diagnosed years after they begin.
treating illness after it strikes. By investing
ONE MIND
2025 Annual Impact Report
