Dan Rujescu - Biography#

Dan Rujescu is Chair of the Clinical Division of General Psychiatry of the Medical University of Vienna . He received his medical degree from the Universities Heidelberg and Essen. From 1993-1995 he worked as a physician at the Dept. of Psychiatry of the University of Mainz. He then became Head of the Division of Molecular and Clinical Neurobiology, a senior physician, a medical specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy, a full Professor for Psychiatry, Head of the Alzheimer Memorial Center, as well as Deputy Head of the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Munich. From 2012 till Spring 2021 he was Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics of the University of Halle, Germany.

He refers to an extensive list of publications comprising more than 450 original papers with a Hirschfaktor of more than 80 (e.g. Nature; Nature Genetics). He has top-class national and in particular international collaborations and to date has been able to raise more than€ 9.2 million in third-party funds, including part of eight EU-funded projects, three genome-wide genotyping initiatives of the Wellcome Trust (WTCCC2/3), one DFG priority programme, one project of the Bavarian Research Foundati on, two R0l projects of the National Institutes of Mental Health (USA), one project of the National Genome Research Network, and one project of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

Dan Rujescu is member of several national and international scientific societies. Within the World Society of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) he is head of the "Genetics" task force and Chief-Editor of the "World Journal of Biological Psychiat ry". Furthermore he is Pl e.g. of the EU:FP7: project "Optimising current therapeutic approaches to schizophrenia. Optimization ofTreatment and Management of Schizophrenia (OPTIMISE)" and the EU:FP7 consortium "Pharmacogenomic biomarkers as clinical decision making tools for clozapine treatment of schizophrenia (CRESTAR)"