Date and place of birth:
| November 20, 1957, Stuttgart, Germany | |
Education and positions:
| 1976-1977 | Psychology & Philosophy, Universities Tübingen and Konstanz | | 1977-1984 | Study of Medicine at the University of Marburg | | | 1984-1988 | Research fellow, Dept. of Surgery; University of Marburg, Medical thesis |
| 1988-1991 | Research Fellow, Inst. of Human Genetics, University of Bonn | | 1991-1995 | Research Fellow, Dept. of Psychiatry and Neurology, University of Bonn | | | 1995-2002 | Consultant, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Bonn | | 1996-2002 | Head of Clinical Genetics Section, Dept. of Psychiatry, University Bonn | | | Since 2002 | Professor and Head of the Dept. of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim | |
Research: Formal genetic, molecular genetic and pharmacogenetic studies in psychiatry, Ethical, social and legal aspects of psychiatric genetics
Publications: more than 260 original papers, 20 review articles, 25 book chapters
Current Grants: EU, Health-FP4-2009-242257 (01/2010-12/2012) ADAMS, DFG SFB 636 (01/2008-12/2011) Subprojects Z4 and B7, DFG Graduiertenkolleg 793 (07/2008-12/2011), BMBF (06/2008-05/2011) Graduate School of the University of Heidelberg, BMBF (06/2008-05/2011): NGFN plus MooDS, BMBF (06/2008-05/2011): NGFN plus Alcohol Addiction, EU: GEPOLO-ADHD; Neuron ERA-NET; Dietmar-Hopp Foundation 5 selected publications:
Treutlein J, Cichon S, Ridinger M, Wodarz N, Soyka M, Zill P, Maier W, Moessner R, Gaebel W, Dahmen N, Fehr C, Scherbaum N, Steffens M, Ludwig KU, Frank J, Wichmann H-J, Schreiber S, Dragano N, Sommer W, Leonardi-Essmann F, Lourdusamy A, Gebicke-Haerter P, Wienker TF, Sullivan PF, Noethen MM, Kiefer F, Spanagel R, Mann K & Rietschel M. (2009). Genome-wide association study of alcohol dependence. Arch Gen Psychiatry 66:773-784
McMahon FJ, Akula N, Schulze TG, Muglia P, Tozzi F, Detera-Wadleigh SD, Steele CJ, Breuer R, Strohmaier J, Wendland JR, Mattheisen M, Mühleisen TW, Maier W, Nöthen MM, Cichon S, Farmer A, Vincent JB, Holsboer F, Preisig M, Rietschel M; Bipolar Disorder Genome Study (BiGS) Consortium (2010) Meta-analysis of genome-wide association data identifies a risk locus for major mood disorders on 3p21.1. Nat Genet 42:128-131
Rietschel M, Mattheisen M, Frank J, Treutlein J, Degenhardt F, Breuer R, Steffens M, Mier D, Esslinger C, Walter H, Kirsch P, Erk S, Schnell K, Herms S, Wichmann HE, Schreiber S, Jöckel KH, Strohmaier J, Roeske D, Haenisch B, Gross M, Hoefels S, Lucae S, Binder EB, Wienker TF, Schulze TG, Schmäl C, Zimmer A, Juraeva D, Brors B, Bettecken T, Meyer-Lindenberg A, Müller-Myhsok B, Maier W, Nöthen MM, Cichon S (2010) Genome-wide association-, replication-, and neuroimaging study implicates HOMER1 in the etiology of major depression. Biol Psychiatry 68:578-585
Wessa M, Linke J, Witt SH, Nieratschker V, Esslinger C, Kirsch P, Grimm O, Hennerici MG, Gass A, King AV, Rietschel M (2010) The CACNA1C risk variant for bipolar disorder influences limbic activity. Mol Psychiatry 15:1126-1127
Rietschel M, Mattheisen M, Degenhardt F; GROUP Investigators; Genetic Risk and Outcome in Psychosis (GROUP Investigators), Kahn RS, Linszen DH, Os JV, Wiersma D, Bruggeman R, Cahn W, de Haan L, Krabbendam L, Myin-Germeys I, Mühleisen TW, Kirsch P, Esslinger C, Herms S, Demontis D, Steffens M, Strohmaier J, Haenisch B, Breuer R, Czerski PM, Giegling I, Strengman E, Schmael C, Mors O, Mortensen PB, Hougaard DM, Orntoft T, Kapelski P, Priebe L, Basmanav FB, Forstner AJ, Hoffmann P, Meier S, Nikitopoulos J, Moebus S, Alexander M, Mössner R, Wichmann HE, Schreiber S, Rivandeneira F, Hofman A, Uitterlinden AG, Wienker TF, Schumacher J, Hauser J, Maier W, Cantor RM, Erk S, Schulze TG; SGENE-plus Consortium; (Only those persons responsible for the samples of Replication 2 are listed), Stefansson H, Steinberg S, Gustafsson O, Sigurdsson E, Petursson H, Kong A, Stefansson K, Pietiläinen OP, Tuulio-Henriksson A, Paunio T, Lonnqvist J, Suvisaari J, Peltonen L, Ruggeri M, Tosato S, Walshe M, Murray R, Collier DA, Clair DS, Hansen T, Ingason A, Jakobsen KD, Duong L, Werge T, Melle I, Andreassen OA, Djurovic S, Bitter I, Réthelyi JM, Abramova L, Kaleda V, Golimbet V, Jönsson EG, Terenius L, Agartz I, Winkel RV, Kenis G, Hert MD, Veldink J, Wiuf C, Didriksen M, Craddock N, Owen MJ, O'Donovan MC, Børglum AD, Rujescu D, Walter H, Meyer-Lindenberg A, Nöthen MM, Ophoff RA, Cichon S (2011) Assocoiation between genetic variation in a region on chromosome 11 and schizophrenia in large samples from Europe. Mol Psychiatry, epub ahead of print
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