Michael Eriksen Benros
  • Blegdamsvej 3

    2200 København N.

  • Source: Scopus
20092025

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Short presentation

Michael Eriksen Benros is an expert in Immuno-Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, Epidemiology and Precision Psychiatry. He is professor at Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Copenhagen, and head of Biological and Precision Psychiatry at Mental Health Centre Copenhagen, Copenhagen University Hospital.

He has been at the forefront of the emerging field of Immuno-Psychiatry and has helped advancing the field through several landmark papers highlighting the association between immune-related factors and mental illness utilizing Danish nationwide registers and biobanks, clinical studies and meta-analysis. His group’s meta-analysis has amongst other highlighted the potential treatment effects of immune modulating drugs for depression and psychotic disorders.

He now leads a sizable effort to disentangle the role of the immune system in the development of severe mental disorders, combining immune exposures from the nationwide Danish registers, with immunogenetic investigations, and novel research on cerebrospinal fluid and blood obtained from biobank and clinical studies of patients with psychotic and affective disorders also utilizing omics and systems biology approaches. Furthermore, he is heading the Precision Psychiatry Initiative utilizing systems biology and machine learning methods aiming at paving the way for more precise diagnostics and new treatment targets.

He is a board member of the Psychiatric Immunology Section of the World Psychiatric Association, co-PI on the DanFunD study, and has received a number of awards, including the prestigious Sapere Aude Research Leader award from the Independent Research Fond Denmark.

External positions

Mental Health Centre Copenhagen

Keywords

  • Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

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