Inaugural Workshop
Researchers from KCL and TUD gathered at the medical campus of TUD in June 2019 for a two-day workshop to discuss project ideas and funding opportunities.
"With this workshop, we are working towards bringing together the complementary expertise and research strengths of the participating institutions", said Professor Michael Bauer, Chair and Director of Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, who initiated the workshop.
The network aims at targeting large centre grants as well as establishing structures for the joint and interdisciplinary promotion of researchers and clinicians.
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1st: Allan Young, Andrea Pfennig, Ute Lewitzka, Anthony Cleare, Sameer Jauhar, Tanja Endrass, Katya Rubia, Tanja Jäckle
2nd: Paola Dazzan, Katja Beesdo-Baum, Philipp Kanske, Christian Beste, Philipp Ritter, Julia Martini
3rd: Carmine Pariante, Michael Bauer, Veit Roessner, Michael Smolka, Emanuel Severus, George P. Chrousos
Further persons: Paolo Fusar-Poli
IRTG - Risks and Pathomechanisms of Affective Disorders
The proposal for an International Research Training Group focusing specifically on affective disorders to support 10 PhD/MD students was submitted to the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in August 2020.
Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) and King's College London (KCL) are leading centres in basic research and treatment of affective disorders. Both institutions have pioneered the translation of results from basic science into clinical application (and vice versa) using a multi-level/multi-method approach in the examination of risk factors and pathomechanisms to improve early identification, understanding and treatment of affective disorders. The key research goals of the proposed IRTG are:
- to examine risk factors and pathomechanisms of affective disorders using a multi-level/multi-method approach.
- to improve prevention, early identification and treatment of affective disorders.
- to further develop the translational approach bringing basic research into clinical application and vice versa.
Following a positive evaluation by the DFG review panel in January 2021 the project has been assigned the funding number GRK 2773/0 and the two sites have been invited to submit the full proposal by April 2021. Researchers on both campuses are now doing their utmost to navigate this collaboration toward success.
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Both the IoPPN and TUD are partners in the large international multisite study to identify biomarkers for the response of patients with bipolar disorder to lithium. Participants will be both phenotyped utilizing resting state fMRI, actimetry and instruments to quantify psychopathology and genotyped.
The quality of response to lithium will be assessed after two years of continuous follow up.
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Mental Health Dresden-Leipzig
transCampus is closely connected to Mental Health Dresden-Leipzig a regional research network, comprising the Technische Universität Dresden, the Universität Leipzig, and the Robert Koch Institute.
Mental Health Dresden-Leipzig has particular strengths and expertise in clinical psychiatry, neuro- and cognitive psychology, basic and clinical neuroscience, epidemiology, environmental sociology, and public mental health. The shared infrastructure includes neuropsychiatric research facilities, a digital health centre, existing longitudinal cohort and population studies, regional networks of district hospitals, services and community organisations in Saxony and international collaborations.
With translation between the above-mentioned research fields, including participatory research approaches, we aim to improve the mental health of young people in particular.
