Curriculum Vitae Edna Grünblatt, Ph.D. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Canton Zurich University of Zurich Head of the Neurobiochemistry Laboratory / Irchel Thurgauerstrasse 39 CH-8050 Zürich Tel: +41(0)44 578 60 71 E-mail: edna.gruenblatt@kjpdzh.ch SCIENTIFIC EXPERIENCE 04.09.2012 Associate Professor (Privatdozentin) in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Since 04.2009 Head of the Neurobiochemistry Laboratory at the University Clinics of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Zürich (KJPD), Zürich Switzerland. 28.04.2008 Associate Professor (Privatdozentin) in Clinical Neurochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Würzburg, Germany. 10.2000-04.2008 Post-Doc and Research Fellow in the Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory and the NPF excellence centre, Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychosomatic and Psychotherapy, Uni. Würzburg, Germany. 10.1998-10.2000 Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Pharmacology and the NPF excellence centre, Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. 10.1996-10.1998 M.Sc. Student, Dept. of Pharmacology and the NPF excellence centre, Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. 7.1997-10.1997 Summer traineeship in Novartis AG, Basel, Switzerland, at the Neuroscience laboratories in molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases. 7.1995-10.1995 Summer traineeship in the Fraunhofer Institute - Chemische Technologie - ICT / Germany. Detection of various materials in a new method of U.I.R. 7.1994-10.1994 Summer traineeship in laboratories of Frutarom Ltd. Akko / Israel, Petrochemical. Inorganic laboratory: quality control and environmental control. 1
ACADEMIC DEGREE 04.09.2012 Habilitation (venia legendi), Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland. 12.2006-04.2008 Habilitation (venia legendi), Clinical Neurochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Würzburg, Germany. 1998-2000 Doctorate, Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel Completion: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.) 1996-1998 Master, Department of Pharmacology Faculty of Medicine, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel Completion: Master of Science in Medical Science (Cum Laude) 1994-1997 Bachelor, Faculty of Biology, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel Completion: Bachelor of Art in Biology (Cum Laude) 1992-1996 Bachelor, Faculty for Chemical Engineering, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel Completion: Bachelor of Science Chemical Engineer (Cum Laude) MILITARY SERVICE 1990-1992 Israeli Defence Forces, Air force GRADUATION 1984-1990 High school (Biology and Technical Graduation); Nahariya, Israel. Completion: Matriculation 1979-1984 Elementary School, Nahariya, Israel. 1982-1983 Foreign Semesters in the Israeli Elementary School, Ibadan, Nigeria. 2
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HONOURS AND PRIZE 07.1999 Congress Fellowship, International Federation of Parkinson s Disease Foundations, Inc. 12.1999 Award for excellence of poster presentation in the annual meeting of the Israel society for oxygen and free radical research and the 13 th Rappaport symposium, Haifa, Israel, December 5, 1999. 03.2001 Award for the best scientific poster on the subject: Early and late changes in MPTP mice model of Parkinson s disease, in the 2. Deutscher Parkinson- Kongress, Bochum, March 7-10, 2001. 07.2002 Travel Fellowship, The 8 th International Conference on Alzheimer s disease and Related Disorders, Alzheimer s Association. Stockholm, Sweden, July 20-25 th, 2002. 10.2002 Congress Fellowship, 8 th Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biologische Psychiatrie, Düsseldorf, Germany, 10-12 th October 2002. 02.2005 Travel Grant, 4. Deutscher Parkinson-Kongress, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 3-5th March, 2005. 06.2005 Fellowship-Program der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Biologische Psychiatrie zum 8th World Congress of Biological Psychiatry. Wien, Östereich, 28. Juni bis 3. Juli, 2005. 11.2005 Der Hirnliga-Forschungspreis. Hirnliga e.v. (Geteilt mit Dr. Henrike Wolf, Psychiatrie Klinik, Leipzig) 12.2007 Travel Grant, XVII WFN World Congress on Parkinson s disease and Related Disorders, 9 th -13 th December 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherland. 04.2008 Merz Preis für Hirnforschung, VITA-Study (Shared with Prof. P- Fischer & Mag. S. Jungwirth). 09.2008 Genomic Pioneers, The Most Admired Researcher Award for outstanding contribution in the field of Genomic, HGM 2008, HUGO. 09.2013 Hanse-Preis für Psychiatrie 2013, for outstanding achievements in the field of Molecular Psychiatry and her contribution ADHD medication and its effects on the brain. EDITORIAL WORK 01.03.2006-31.12.2011 Associate Editor, Journal of Alzheimer s disease 01.10.2011-today Special Issue Editor, Journal Neural Transmission 01.08.2012-today Journal Molecular Psychiatry 01.01.2012-today Reviewer for the NSW Brain Bank Network (NSWBBN), Autralia 4
MEMBERSHIP 01.01.2013 Member in the Swiss Society of Biological Psychiatry 01.03.2012 Junior Member, The Zurich Centre for Integrative Human Physiology (ZIHP) 01.02.2012 Member, Neuroscience centre Zürich (ZNZ) 01.01.2011-today Swiss Society of Neuroscience (SSN) 01.01.2012-today European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) 01.01.2012-today ECNP Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders Network Initiative (NI) 01.12.2012-today ECNP Child and Adolescent Neuropsychopharmacology Network Initiative (NI) 01.01.2010-today College of Obsessive Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (ICOCS) 01.2006-today Neurowissenschaftliche Gesellschaft e.v. (Deutschland) 01.05.2005-today Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biologische Psychiatrie 01.01.2001-today Deutsche Parkinson Gesellschaft e.v. 5