CINP Council 2021 - 2022 |
The CINP Councillors are another piece to the CINP puzzle and play various key roles within the college. They are also all members of a CINP committee and contribute their valuable knowledge to improve the standards of the Neuropsychopharmacology on a day to day basis. Prof. Ryota Hashimoto, Japan
Dr. Hashimoto is investigating the diagnostic and therapeutic methods of mental illnesses including schizophrenia, mood disorders and autism spectrum disorders using neuropsychological, neurophysiological, neuroimaging, neuropsychopharmacological, and genetic methods using large database and research resource with 4000 subjects he collected at Osaka University. Dr. Hashimoto spearheads Cognitive Genetics Collaborative Research Organization (COCORO), which consists of 39 leading institutes of biological psychiatry in Japan. Dr. Hashimoto also a member of creating clinical practice guidelines, Pharmacotherapy of Schizophrenia and Major Depressive disorder in Japan, and developed “EGUIDE (Effectiveness of GUIdeline for Dissemination and Education in psychiatric treatment) project” to spread clinical practice guidelines for improvement of quality of medical care in psychiatry, which consists of 94 hospitals in psychiatric fields. Prof. Katharina Domschke, Germany
She completed her studies in medicine and psychology at the University of Muenster, Germany, and Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (M.D., 2004), as well as Boston University, Boston, MA, USA (M.A., 2002), and Maastricht University, The Netherlands (Ph.D., 2010). After her board certification as a psychiatrist she worked as an attending physician and associate professor at the Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Muenster, Germany. In 2012, she was appointed Full Professor of Psychiatry and in 2014 Vice Chair of the Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Wuerzburg, Germany. Since 2016, she is Chair and Full Professor at the Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Freiburg, Germany, and Adjunct Professor at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. Her clinical and teaching focus is on depression, anxiety, OCD and PTSD. Scientifically, Prof. Domschke is a renowned expert in genetics, epigenetics, imaging genetics and therapygenetics of anxiety and depression as reflected by to date ~200 publications in international journals and 25 book chapters. Her work has been recognized by e.g. the WFSBP Research Award, the WPA Fellowship Award and the ECNP Fellowship Award. Prof. Domschke has received funding from the EU, the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the German Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF). She is a full member of ACNP, ECNP, ISPG, SOBP, the German Society of Biological Psychiatry (DGBP) and the German Society of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology (DGPPN). Prof. Domschke serves on the editorial boards of e.g. the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, Pharmacopsychiatry, Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry and the World Journal of Biological Psychiatry. Prof. Atsumi Nitta, Japan
In these laboratories, she continued studies on addiction, schizophrenia, depression, dementia, and neurodevelopmental disorders at the molecular, genetic, animal-behavioral, and clinical levels. She has published more than 150 articles covering these topics in scientific journals, including Int. J. Neuropsychopharmacol., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., Mol. Psychiatry, and J. Neurosci. She was awarded the Distinguished Young Scientist (Japanese Society for Neurochemistry) in 2004, among several other awards. Prof. Peter Falkai, Germany
Prof. Falkai has been leading multidisciplinary teams of researchers, allowing the use of techniques ranging from functional imaging to gene expression in human post-mortem-tissue. His clinical and research expertise focuses continuously on the neurobiological origins and pathomorphological aspects as well as on causal treatment options of psychotic disorders. Prof. Falkai has managed to obtain state funding for numerous of his research projects and has also received various research awards. He has been involved in creating treatment guidelines for schizophrenia for the German Society of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Nervous Diseases (DGPPN) and for the World Federation of the Biological Societies (WFSBP). He was Chairman of the DGPPN from 2011-2012 and Chairman of the Council of National Societies (NPAs) of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA) from 2012-2014.Prof. Carol Tamminga, USA
The goal of Dr. Tamminga’s research is to examine and understand the mechanisms underlying schizophrenia, especially its most prominent symptoms, psychosis and memory dysfunction, in order to build rational treatments for the illness. She evaluates the function of the living human brain in individuals with and without schizophrenia using brain imaging techniques. Then, building on this knowledge, she uses human postmortem brain tissue to translate the functional alterations from the living human patient into molecular observations of the illness. Now she is using case-specific neuronal cultures to address molecular and cellular questions. Her ultimate goal is to use the alterations in in vivo imaging, postmortem molecular changes and cultured neuronal characteristics as biomarkers and targets for identifying animal models of disease and novel active pharmaceuticals for psychosis. Prof. Allan Young, United Kingdom
Professor Young’s research interests focus on the cause and treatments for severe psychiatric illnesses, particularly mood disorders. He has received research grant funding from the UK Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, the Stanley Medical Research Institute, and the Canadian Institutes for Heath Research (CIHR), the National Institutes of Health (USA) and numerous other funding agencies. He has published over 400 peer-reviewed publications and a number of books about psychopharmacology and affective disorders including ‘Bipolar disorders: basic mechanisms and therapeutic implications’ (2nd Ed.) with JC Soares, and ‘Practical management of bipolar disorder’ with IN Ferrier and E Michalak (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Professor Young is a member of a number of editorial boards and is a member of numerous professional and scientific societies. He is Immediate Past President of the International Society for Affective Disorders and the current President of the British Association of Psychopharmacology. Prof. Noboru Hiroi, USAProf. Ming-Chyi Huang, TaiwanDr. Ming-Chyi Huang has been serving as an attending psychiatrist in the Department of Addiction Sciences in Taipei City Psychiatric Center. (TCPC). Her clinical and academic interests are mainly related to addictive disorders, including searching for clinical biomarkers for the toxicity and neuroadaption related to addiction. She has conducted clinical trials of pharmacotherapy or non-pharmacotherapy (smartphone application) for alcohol dependence. In recent years, she has been focusing on the neuropsychological consequences of ketamine abusers and functional connectivity related to methamphetamine psychosis. Dr. Huang is the chief of Laboratory of Clinical and Translational Studies in Biological Psychiatry and Department of Addiction Sciences in TCPC. Dr. Carlos Zarate, USA
Prof. Tian Mei Si, China |