Kenneth S. Kendler, Professor of Psychiatry and Human and Molecular Genetics at the Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA, received the Jean Delay Prize 2011 in the Opening Session of the 15th World Congress of Psychiatry, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 18 September, 2011.

The WPA announces that Kenneth S. Kendler, Professor of Psychiatry and Human and Molecular Genetics at the Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA, is the recipient of the Jean Delay Prize 2011.

Honors distinguished colleagues that scholarly bridged the biological, psychological and social sciences underpinning our clinical profession and who veritably emblematized our highest ethical aspirations.

The Geneva Prize for Human Rights in Psychiatry is intended to acknowledge an individual, without any restriction of gender, age or nationality, or an institution with governmental or non governmental status, for exceptional achievement at regional, national or international level in...