Research Focus

Psychiatry

Area of Research

Biomarker development for early detection and interventions of psychiatric disorders

• Mapping whole-brain structural networks in emerging psychosis, Swiss National Science Foundation,  p3.snf.ch/project-155184
• Risk Prediction in Offspring of Patients with Schizophrenia and Depression using Whole-Brain Network Markers, Stiftung zur Förderung der gastroenterologischen und allgemeinen klinischen Forschung sowie der medizinischen Bildauswertung

National Collaborations

• Prof. Undine Lang, UPK Basel
• Prof. Marc Walter, UPK Basel
• PD Dr. Marc Vogel, Psychiatrische Dienste Thurgau
• Dr. Matthias Kirschner, PUK Zurich
• Dr. Philipp Homan, PUK Zurich
• Prof Eling de Bruin, ETH Zurich
• Prof Mark Ibberson, University of Lausanne
• Prof Stefan Kaiser, University of Geneva

International Collaborations

• Prof Jeroen Raes, KU Leuven
• Prof Lena Palaniyappan, Western University
• Prof Sophia Frangou, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
• Prof Stefan Borgwardt, Universität zu Lübeck
• Prof Paolo Fusar-Poli, King’s College London
• Prof Ulrich Ettinger, University of Bonn
• Prof Martin Debbané, University College London

• BRAIN-IT (Partner: Prof Eling de Bruin ETH Zurich), Synapsis Foundation Alzheimer Research Switzerland
• Multidimensional Biomarker Development for Personalized Probiotic Treatment Outcome in Depression, Excellent Junior Researchers, University of Basel
• Surrogate Brain Biomarkers of Probiotic Treatment Outcome in Depression, Forschungsfonds UPK Basel
• A randomized add-on trial of D-serine for depression, Gertrud Thalmann Fonds
• Gut microbiota - hippocampus synergisms in non-clinical subjects with high positive schizotypy, Swiss National Science Foundationhttp://p3.snf.ch/project-200801#