Albert Einstein College of Medicine Awarded $18 Million NIH Grant to Improve Treatment for Serious Mental Illness

New Predictive Platform Will Use Digital Technology and AI to Assist Clinician Decision-Making

BRONX, N.Y., Oct. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Serious mental illnesses (SMI) take a tremendous toll on individuals, their friends and family, and society as a whole. SMI such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder contribute to poverty, unemployment, and homelessness, and can lead to hospitalization and suicide. Predicting when intensive intervention is needed in individual cases is a major unmet mental healthcare need.

Albert Einstein College of Medicine has received an $18 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to use AI, cognitive monitoring, and psychiatric symptoms to determine when someone diagnosed with an SMI needs more intensive support. The project will develop prediction algorithms using AI and a novel cognitive assessment tool to help identify those at high risk for a crisis so they can be offered interventions to prevent symptom escalation, improve recovery time, and reduce hospitalization. The cognitive monitoring tools will be available on a digital platform at no cost to mental health professionals.