Team Bio

I am a medical student in my 11th term dedicated to psychiatric research and to promoting research in general. I work as a researcher at Risskov Psychiatric Hospital and as a co-supervisor of medical students in the Clinical Psychiatric Research School. I organize the Congress for Medical Student Research, Research Dating and Research Café.
I have a passion for promoting medical student research, helping the spread of good ideas and challenging the status quo of higher education and medical practices.

Recommendations
"Building on more than 25 years of leading a research department, I can say that the scientific accomplishments of Niels Okkels are exceptional for a person of his age, and that he already has demonstrated a bright and promising talent in biomedical research"
Povl Munk-Jørgensen, MD DMSc Professor of Psychiatry

List of scientific publications and online CV
click here

Niels Okkels

I am a medical student in my 11th term dedicated to psychiatric research and to promoting research in general. I work as a researcher at Risskov Psychiatric Hospital and as a co-supervisor of medical students in the Clinical Psychiatric Research School. I organize the Congress for Medical Student Research, Research Dating and Research Café.
I have a passion for promoting medical student research, helping the spread of good ideas and challenging the status quo of higher education and medical practices.

Recommendations
"Building on more than 25 years of leading a research department, I can say that the scientific accomplishments of Niels Okkels are exceptional for a person of his age, and that he already has demonstrated a bright and promising talent in biomedical research"
Povl Munk-Jørgensen, MD DMSc Professor of Psychiatry

List of scientific publications and online CV
click here

James Kirkbride

I am a psychiatric epidemiologist interested in the causes of schizophrenia and other major psychotic disorders from an environmental perspective. I am a member of the EpiCentre group within the Department of Psychiatry. I am particularly interested in the interplay between genes and environment to lead to the onset of psychosis via disruption of neurobiological pathways. My current research involves investigating the incidence of psychotic disorders in East Anglia – an area with marked variation in deprivation, immigration and urbanicity. Little is known about the burden of psychotic disorders in rural areas and this study – the Social Epidemiology of Psychoses in East Anglia [SEPEA-link] – will provide important information in this regard. The study will provide the sample of cases which feed into a collaborative EU Framework Programme grant to study the interaction between genes and environment in the onset of psychoses – the EU-GeneEnvironment [EU-GEI-link] Interaction case-control study.

Steve Cole

Steve Cole is a Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences in the UCLA School of Medicine. His research studies the biological pathways by which social environments influence gene expression by viral, cancer, and immune cell genomes. Dr. Cole received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University in 1993 and subsequently completed 5 years of Post-Doctoral Fellowship research in psycho-neuro-immunology at UCLA. He subsequently served as an Assistant Research Biologist (1998), Assistant Professor (2001), Associate Professor (2006), and Professor of Medicine (2011) at UCLA. In addition to his appointments in the Division of Hematology-Oncology in the UCLA Department of Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Dr. Cole is also a member of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Norman Cousins Center, the UCLA AIDS Institute, and the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. Dr. Cole also serves as Director of the UCLA Social Genomics Core Laboratory, and provides consulting support on social regulation of gene expression to the Institute of Medicine, the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute on Aging, the Santa Fe Institute for Complex Systems, and the MacArthur Foundation, among others.

Niklas Worm Andersson

I am medical student at Aarhus University and a member of Clinical Psychiatric Research School at Aarhus University Hospital, Risskov from where I am involved in psychiatric research. Currently I am studying at the University of Sydney, Australia. Moreover, I support editorial work on the scientific journal 'Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica'. I am especially interested in the field of research that concerns the interplay between mental and physical diseases as I favour the idea of the body being an unified and inseparable functioning system.