Vibe Frøkjær has received a Lundbeck Foundation scholarstipend from the Danish Psychiatric Society for Emilie Ørntoft Lange and the project 'Stress hormone dynamics and mental health in postpartum women'.
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Congratulations to:
Post Doc Pontus Plavén-Sigray, who has received 248.000 USD from the Longevity Impetus Grants. The project is entitled "The search for an aging biomarker: in vivo quantification of age-related proteins using Positron Emission Tomography in humans".
Post Doc Jonas Svensson, Specialist in Psychiatry, who is the recipient of two grants: one from Region Hovedstadens Forskningsfond til Sundhedsforskning, worth 599.904 DKK, for the project "Precision psychiatry and a new model for serotonin in depression: PET studies of synaptic density and the serotonin transporter"; and one from Hjärnfonden, worth 600.000 SEK, for the project "The search for an aging biomarker: in vivo quantification of age-related proteins using Positron Emission Tomography in humans".
Post Doc Pontus Plavén-Sigray, who has received 248.000 USD from the Longevity Impetus Grants. The project is entitled "The search for an aging biomarker: in vivo quantification of age-related proteins using Positron Emission Tomography in humans".
Post Doc Jonas Svensson, Specialist in Psychiatry, who is the recipient of two grants: one from Region Hovedstadens Forskningsfond til Sundhedsforskning, worth 599.904 DKK, for the project "Precision psychiatry and a new model for serotonin in depression: PET studies of synaptic density and the serotonin transporter"; and one from Hjärnfonden, worth 600.000 SEK, for the project "The search for an aging biomarker: in vivo quantification of age-related proteins using Positron Emission Tomography in humans".
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NRU is organizing BrainHack on the 6th and 7th of December as a joint venture with MGH, with two physical locations.
Program can be found at https://openneuropet.github.io/brainhack/
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The NRU Christmas Symposium will take place on Friday, December 10, at 9 am.
Venue: Auditorium 93, Rigshospitalet, Juliane Maries Vej 20-22
or via zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88987852763?pwd=VGRmb1FDVDZsaE4welFDSGNQUnYxdz09
For programme and requirements when attending physically, click here
Venue: Auditorium 93, Rigshospitalet, Juliane Maries Vej 20-22
or via zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88987852763?pwd=VGRmb1FDVDZsaE4welFDSGNQUnYxdz09
For programme and requirements when attending physically, click here
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Professor Todd Ogden (Columbia University) will visit NRU October 14th to 23rd. Professor Ogden is a professor in biostatistics and has for many years worked with the development of statistical methodologies for the analysis of data that arise in imaging and other high-dimensional settings. Professor Ogden is currently a Visiting Professor at NRU, supported by the Lundbeck Foundation.
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A warm welcome to our ECNP intern, PhD Sofi Atshemyan.
Sofi Atshemyan is a researcher from the Institute of Molecular Biology of the National Academy of Sciences in Armenia (NAS RA)․ Her study interests are mainly focused on the genetic background of Schizophrenia.
During her PhD research, Sofi has studied genetic variants of the regulators of synaptic plasticity in Schizophrenia to reveal new candidate genes for this disease. She will be working with Jens in the period August 2nd-13th.
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Congratulations to Sara Marie Larsen who has been awarded with the ECNP Excellence Award for her abstract "NREM sleep upregulates human brain pulsation detected by Ultrafast Magnetic Resonance Encephalography".
The award consists of a 100 EUR grant and a certificate as well as a 400 EUR travel grant for the ECNP congress in Lisbon, Portugal.
The ECNP Congress 2021 will be a hybrid congress taking place Oct 2-5.
The award consists of a 100 EUR grant and a certificate as well as a 400 EUR travel grant for the ECNP congress in Lisbon, Portugal.
The ECNP Congress 2021 will be a hybrid congress taking place Oct 2-5.
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Congratulations to NRU postdoc Vibeke Dam who has received an international postdoc grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark for her project: 'Cognitive contributions to depression - exposing the role of working memory deficits in depressive pathology'. The grant is worth 1.305.000 DKK and includes full postdoc salary for two years. Vibeke will be carrying out some of the research activities in the project at the School of Psychological Science at the University of Bristol under the supervision of professor Marcus Munafò in collaboration with professor Ian Pentok-Voak.
Project abstract: Working memory deficit is a common but often overlooked symptom in Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). As a consequence, we know little about its role in the development and maintenance of depressive psychopathology. Using working memory data from established epidemiological cohort studies and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) neuroimaging studies, I here propose to address two fundamental questions about the role of working memory function in MDD: 1) does early-life working memory deficits constitute a risk factor in later development of MDD and 2) what is the involvement of serotonergic neurotransmission in working memory function and does it differ between the healthy and depressed brain? Results from these studies will not only contribute significantly to our understanding of working memory in MDD but could also help identify new treatment targets and perhaps guide future preventative strategies in MDD.
Project abstract: Working memory deficit is a common but often overlooked symptom in Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). As a consequence, we know little about its role in the development and maintenance of depressive psychopathology. Using working memory data from established epidemiological cohort studies and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) neuroimaging studies, I here propose to address two fundamental questions about the role of working memory function in MDD: 1) does early-life working memory deficits constitute a risk factor in later development of MDD and 2) what is the involvement of serotonergic neurotransmission in working memory function and does it differ between the healthy and depressed brain? Results from these studies will not only contribute significantly to our understanding of working memory in MDD but could also help identify new treatment targets and perhaps guide future preventative strategies in MDD.
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A warm welcome to the new NRU staff members:
Junior faculty member Anjali Sankar, who will be working in BrainDrugs WP3.
Anjali holds a PhD degree in Psychological Medicine from King's College. Her research is dedicated to the study of mood disorders, both major depressive and bipolar disorders. An important focus is on identifying reliable biomarkers that can predict clinical response to treatments as well as negative outcomes such as suicide using multimodal neuroimaging techniques.
Congratulations to Hannah Eichhorn (Physics), who graduated in June and is back as Research Assistant (MoCo project).
Anjali Hannah
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Congratulations to Cyril Pernet who in connection to the OHBM 2021 Annual Meeting received acknowledgement as Fellow of OHBM. With the acknowledgement, the OHBM community wants to appreciate Cyril's continued hard work and dedication which is apparent to the success of OHBM.
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- New funding from Helsefonden and Jascha Fonden
- CAG Brain and Technology
- Responsible AI seminar
- Staff News April 2021
- Grant from the Research Council of Rigshospitalet
- New professorship to Jens H. Mikkelsen
- Several new grants to NRU
- NRU Christmas Symposium 2020
- Sapere Aude Starting grant to Mikael Palner
- The world's largest single-cell study of epilepsy published