!!Brenda Penninx - Biography
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Brenda Penninx is Professor at the Department of Psychiatry of the Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit in the Netherlands. In the past she worked as research fellow at the National Institute of Health, and at Wake Forest University NC, USA. Her focus is on cross-disciplinary mental health research which integrates psychiatry, somatic health, genomics, psychoneuroendocrinology, immunology and behavioural medicine. She founded the multi-site, longitudinal [Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety|https://www.nesda.nl], an invaluable research resource for psychiatry which data have been used in >100 PhD-theses and >900 publications. She embeds big-data ‘omics’ to better understand the bidirectional interplay between mental and somatic health. This has, amongst others, led to a focus on immunometabolic depression, a subdimension in part of the depressed population for which her group currently evaluates new personalised interventions. Funded through prestigious national, NIH or EU-grants, Penninx investigates novel lifestyle (e.g. exercise and nutritional) interventions and focusses currently also on ambulatory stress assessment and intervention in daily life ([Stress in Action project|https://www.stress-in-action.nl]). \\
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__Papers:__ ~1500, H-index=180, citations: >140,000\\
__Grants:__ >50 grants totalling >50 million Euro\\
__PhD-students graduated under supervision:__ 75\\
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