Roel Ophoff#
| Membership Number: | 7540 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
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| ORCID: | 0000-0002-8287-6457 |
| Publication Link: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1rsbywRrwOS/bibliography/public/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010- Professor-in-Residence of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences and Human Genetics, University of California Los Angeles
- 2014- Director, Training Program in Neurobehavioral Genetics, University of California Los Angeles
- 2015- Subject Editor of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425; CODEN: GENEG9)
- 2025- Member UCLA Council on Academic Personnel - ClinCAP
- 2022- Associate Director of UCLA Bioinformatics Interdepartmental Program
- 1997-2000 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California San Francisco
- 2000 Research Scientist, Leiden University, The Netherlands
- 2000-2002 Associate Research Geneticist, University of California Los Angeles
- 2002-2008 Assistant Professor of Human Genetics, University of California Los Angeles
- 2006-2009 Associate Professor, Dept of Medical Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands.
- 2008-2010 Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Genetics, University of California Los Angeles
- 2009-2018 Professor of Molecular Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
- 2018-2024 Professor of Psychiatric Genetics, Erasmus Medical Center, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Fields of Scholarship
- Bioinformatics
- Heritability of gene expression and DNA methylation
- Human genetics and genomics
- Graduate and post-graduate training in Neurobehavioral Genetics
- Epigenetic variation and disease susceptibility
- Genetic architecture of Neurological and Psychiatric disorders
Honours and Awards
- 1996 Young Investigator Award, Dutch Headache Society.
- 1997 Wolf Award of the American Association for the Study of Headache (best manuscript).
- 1997 TALENT stipend, The Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research (NWO).
- 1999 Gisela Thier Fellowship, Leiden University Medical Center
- 2002 NARSAD Young Investigator Award, Peter Zartman Investigator
- 2003 NIH R01funding award National Institute of General Medicine Science
- 2005 NARSAD Young Investigator Award
- 2006 NIH R01Funding Award National Institute of Mental Health
- 2007 Princes Beatrix Fonds
- 2007 ALS Association Funding Award
- 2008 NARSAD Independent Investigator Award
- 2008 NIH R01 Funding Award National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes
- 2009 NIH R01 Funding Award National Institute of Drug Abuse
- 2011 NIH R21 Funding Award National Institute of Mental Health
- 2011 NIH R01 Funding Award National Institute of Mental Health
- 2013 Dupuytren Foundation Funding Award
- 2013 NIH R21 Funding Award National Institute of Mental Health
- 2013 The ALS Association Funding Award
- 2014 NIH R21 Funding Award National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
- 2015 ALS Association Funding Award
- 2015 NIH R01 Funding Award National Institute of Mental Health
- 2016 NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award
- 2018 NIH R01 Funding Award National Institute of Mental Health
- 2020 NIH U01 Funding Award National Institute of Mental Health
- 2021 NIH Award T32 Training program Neurobehavioral Genetics
- 2023 NIH R01 Funding Award National Institute of Mental Health
- 2024 Department of Defense Funding Award
