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Building Momentum for Bold Ideas
The journeys of Rising Star Awardees
昀椀eld’s most ambitious investigations into
demonstrate how early investment
the biological roots of adolescent suicide
can help transform promising science
risk — while simultaneously building the
into discoveries, leadership, and new
institutional infrastructure to sustain that
opportunities that advance the 昀椀eld of
work for years to come.
mental health.
In January 2025, Dr. Marusak launched
the Cannabinoids in Neurodevelopment
Exploring New
Pathways in Youth
Suicide Prevention
(CANDID) Division at Wayne State — the
昀椀rst division of its kind at the institution —
to build a multidisciplinary research network
focused on how cannabis, cannabinoids,
and the eCB system a昀昀ect the developing
brain. CANDID immediately set to work on
Tapping Into the Endocannabinoid System
new pilot studies: one examining whether
to Predict PTSD Risk in Children
eCB system markers can predict PTSD risk
In 2025, Hilary Marusak, PhD, Associate
in children following pediatric intensive care
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral
unit admissions, another investigating how
Neurosciences at Wayne State University
prenatal cannabis exposure shapes maternal
School of Medicine, turned a $300,000
mental health and neonatal outcomes.
One Mind Rising Star grant into one of the
In June 2025, Dr. Marusak co-published a
chapter in Cannabis and the Developing
Brain (Springer) synthesizing current
evidence on how eCB system dysfunction
may contribute to suicidal thoughts and
behaviors in adolescents — and identifying
the critical research gaps her One Mindfunded study is designed to 昀椀ll. She also
co-authored a major review in the Journal
of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Dr. Hilary Marusak
2024 One Mind-Miñana/Lovelace
Rising Star Award, Wayne State University
ONE MIND
2025 Annual Impact Report
