Advisory Boards

Advisory boards play a crucial role in achieving the long-term goals of the iCNS by providing strategic advice and promoting collaboration between different disciplines.

Strategic Board 

The Startegic Board (SB) consists of one senior representative of each host institute of the consortium, equivalent to a dean or a research director.  The members of the SB advise on all relevant matters concerning iCNS.

Young Researchers Council

The Young Researchers Council (YRC) consists of three elected representatives of the doctoral candidates and post-doctoral researchers involved in iCNS. Every year, the early-stage researchers elect one new representative, thus ensuring both continuity and renewal in the YRC. The YRC advises the EB, both at the request of the EB and on its own initiative.

YRC 2025 - 2026:
David van Lee (left), Chloé LeMaoult (middle), Daan van der Vliet (right)

International Advisory Board

The International Advisory Board (IAB) is composed of internationally renowned scientists and high-level representatives from potential knowledge users. Its role is to provide an external point of view on the overall strategy of iCNS, and on its maximal impact, to advise on, and connect to, complementary initiatives worldwide, and to advise on the selection of new talent and personnel. The IAB has five “chambers”, representing the scientific community, clinicians, patients, industry, and ethics.

Member Institute Country Role Chamber
Boudewijn Lelieveldt LUMC NL Professor of Biomedical Imaging, board member of Brainscape IAB-S
Brenda Penninx NL AUMC Vice-chair at the Psychiatry department IAB-C
Casper Hoogenraad NL UU Professor of Molecular Neuroscience at UU. Vice president, head of Neuroscience at Genentech Research IAB-I
Dirk-Jan Saaltink NL Dutch Brain Foundation Senior polocy officer at the Dutch Brain Foundation IAB-P
Elisabeth Binder DE MPI Director Translational Research in Psychiatry at the Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich IAB-S
Elly Hol NL UU Head of the department of Translational Neuroscience at the University Medical Center Utrecht Brain Center IAB-S
Gerben Meynen NL VU Professor by special appointment of ethics, bioethics and spychiatry IAB-E
Gustavo Turecki CA DRC Director of the Douglas Research Centre IAB-S
Guus Smit NL VU Director of the Center of Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research IAB-S
Josef Priller UK/DE UE/CUB Chair of Brain Inflammation at the University of Edinburgh and professor of neurospychiatry at Charité University Berlin IAB-C
Marieke van Eijkelen NL Plusminus Plusminus association of and for people with BPD and their relatives IAB-P
Sachin Patel USA FSMNU Chair of psychiatry and behavioral science of the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University IAB-C
Schahram Akbarian USA Mount Sinai School of Medicine MD, division of Psychiatric Epigenomics, deptartment of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. Spearheading PsychENCODE. IAB-S
Staci Bilbo USA DU Haley family professor of psychology and neurscience IAB-S
Uwe Grether CH Roche Principal Investigator  IAB-I

 

                                  

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