!!Gunter Schumann - Biography
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Professor Gunter Schumann is Director of the Centre for Population Neuroscience at Charite Berlin. He is affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry at University of Cambridge and Fudan University Shanghai. He was appointed Distinguished Professor in 2020.\\
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Schumann studied medicine at the Universities of Tübingen, Hamburg and at Harvard University. After receiving American and German licences to practice in 1993, he became a research fellow at the Dana Farber Cancer Research Institute at Harvard Medical School, supported by the German National Scholarship Foundation. Back in Germany he trained in psychiatry and was board certified in 2001 while at the Central Institute of Mental Health, University of Heidelberg where he was a consultant psychiatrist. In 2005, Schumann was appointed Chair in Addiction Biology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London. In 2011, he became Chair in Biological Psychiatry while serving as Deputy Director of the NIHR-Biomedical Research Centre. In 2016 he founded and directed the Centre for Population Neuroscience and Stratified Medicine (PONS), leading transformative investigations of the effect of environment on brain and behaviour. \\
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As coordinator of IMAGEN he identified neurobiological mechanisms underlying reinforcement-related behaviour and determined their predictive value for psychiatric disorders. IMAGEN is a pioneering, European Commission-funded imaging genetics study established in 2005 that has advanced the field in over 300 publications, including Nature and Science. It was a model for subsequent projects globally, such as the American ABCD study, the Chinese Imaging Genetics Study as well as the European STRATIFY, Indian cVEDA and Chinese Zhangjiang cohorts, which he also coordinates. In 2016 Schumann was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to establish a nosology for psychiatric illness based on quantitative neurobehavioural phenotypes, an achievement that addresses a central problem of psychiatry. Since 2022, Schumann coordinates a Horizon Europe Project ‘environMENTAL’, a pioneering investigation of the effect of great global environmental challenges, urbanicity, climate change, pollution and social disparity on brain and mental health. In recognition of his work, he was asked to lead the Nature Commission on Environment, Brain and Mental Health, launched earlier this year.\\
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Schumann has acquired more than 40 million Euro in research funding. He has received numerous awards, including an ERC Advanced Investigator Award, a Humboldt Prize, an ECNP Award and the award of the German Addiction Foundation. He held plenary talks and prestigious named lectures. Professor Schumann was tasked by the European Commission to lead the development of a Biomedical Research Strategy for a European Roadmap for Mental Health Research. He was awarded Honorary and Visiting Professorships, including at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Fudan University and Tianjin Medical University.\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit gschumann}][{ALLOW upload gschumann}][{ALLOW comment All}]