Professor Sarah Kittel-Schneider
Inaugural Professorial Lecture
‘From biomarkers to human cell models: towards Precision Psychiatry.’
| Date Wednesday 21st February, 1.15pm - 2.15pm (Irish Local Time) |
| Venue Room BHSC G05 - Brookfield Health Sciences Complex UCC |
| Lecture Title "From biomarkers to human cell models: towards Precision Psychiatry." Mental disorders are a world-wide increasing burden. Available treatment approaches are effective, but diagnosis and treatment are often delayed, worsening the outcome of the affected individual. Furthermore, only about 20-30% of affected individuals respond to the initial treatment approach and about 10% do not respond sufficiently to available treatment options at all. Additionally, 90% of all novel drugs from preclinical studies fail in clinical trials. In this lecture, innovative and integrative methods will be presented that address those unmet medical needs in mental disorders. The examples to demonstrate those novel approaches will be mood disorders and adult ADHD, with a special focus on the peripartum period. |
Biography
Professor Sarah Kittel-Schneider, Chair and Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioural Science, UCC
Consultant General Adult Psychiatry, MHS South Lee Cork
Sarah Kittel-Schneider has studied medicine at the University of Würzburg, Germany and has undergone specialisation training for general adult psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the University Hospital in Würzburg, Germany. She was vice director of the Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Frankfurt/Main, Germany. After that, she was vice director and professor of Developmental Psychiatry of the Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the University Hospital in Würzburg, Germany.
Her research focus is on psychosocial and biological risk factors of perinatal mental disorders and multimodal biomarkers of ADHD and mood disorders. Additionally, her research group investigates human induced pluripotent stem cell derived models of mental illnesses. She is Co-Chair of the ECNP network iPSCs Platform for Neuropsychiatry and a board member of the international Marcé-Society for Perinatal Mental Health as well as co-Chair of the German speaking group of the Marcé-Society for Perinatal Mental Health. She is workgroup leader of the EU Cost Action TREASURE and was involved in the development of the European Guidelines for Peripartum Depression with the EU COST Action RiseUpPPD. She is an active member of several other international research networks and professional societies.
Her goal is to investigate causal pathomechanisms of mental disorders and develop novel and individualized preventive interventions and treatments in multi-professional and interdisciplinary collaborative research projects.
Find out more about Prof Kittel-Schneider's interests and publications at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sarah-Kittel-Schneider