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Edwin J.C.G. van den Oord

Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry

Tel: 804 828 8127 Fax: 804 828 1471

Email: ejvandenoord@vcu.edu

P.O. Box: 980126

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Education

• 1985: BA Physical education, Amsterdam
• 1991: MA (Cum Laude) Statistics/Psychology, Department of Statistics and Research Methods, University of Amsterdam
• 1993: Ph.D. Psychiatric genetics, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Professional Experience

• 1991-1993: Research associate, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Rotterdam, and the Netherlands Twin Register, Free University, Amsterdam
• 1993-1995: Head expenditure research section, TelePanel Research Centre, Department of Statistics and Research Methods, University of Amsterdam
• 1995-1997: Assistant professor, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht
• 1997-1998: Research fellow, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
• 1998-2001: Assistant professor, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht
• 2001-present: Associate professor, Virginia Institute of Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University

Honors

• 1991: Cum Laude, Statistics and Research Methods, University of Amsterdam

• 1993: Young Investigator Award from International Society of Psychiatric Genetics to attend meeting

• 1997: Research fellowship European Science Foundation

• 2002: Independent Investigator Award from NARSAD

• 2003: David Fulker Award from the Behavior Genetics Association

Funded Research

• R01 MH65320 Van den Oord (2002-2005) PI, NIH/NIMH: Candidates Genes in Models of Mental Health
• GSK Van den Oord (2003-2005) PI, GlaxoSmithKline: The genetic epidemiology of psychiatric and respiratory phenotypes
• NARSAD Van den Oord (2002-2005) PI, National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression: Exploring the use of Haplotype Maps to Detect Susceptibility Genes for Schizophrenia
• ADW Van den Oord (2004-2005) PI, AD Williams Trust Grant: Behavioral and Genetic Markers of Drug Addiction in an Adolescent Murine Model
• VTSF #8520012 Kendler (2001-2005) Co-I, Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation: Candidate Genes for Nicotine Dependence in Humans
• R01 AA11408 Prescott (2002-2006) Co-I, NIH/NIMH/NIAAA: An Irish Affected Sib Pair Study of Alcohol Dependence

• R01 MH41953 Kendler (1999-2009) CoI, NIH/NIMH: The Genetic Epidemiology of Schizophrenia in Ireland

Research Interests

• Statistical genetics
• Psychiatric genetics
• Interplay genotype-environment
• Psychometrics
• Data mining

Current Teaching Assignments

Selected Publications

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• Publications by VIPBG faculty
• NIH Biosketch (in PDF format) updated May, 2003

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