International / Schizophrenia Category

Title of Winning Proposal: The time course of antipsychotic drug effect

After a brief excursion in law, Stefan Leucht studied medicine at the Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, and graduated in 1993. During these studies he was supported by a “Scholarship for the Highly Talented” by the Federal State of Bavaria. He received a doctor’s degree for an experimental study in the field of intensive care medicine in 1995. Since 1994 he has been practicing at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany. In 2002/2003 he spent a year as a research associate at the Zucker Hillside Hospital, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in New York. While the collaboration with the Zucker Hillside Hospital continues, he returned to the Technische Universität München in September 2003 where he was appointed assistant professor ("Privatdozent") in January 2005.

After initial contributions to the field of depression and Alzheimer's disease, Dr. Leucht's research focus switched to psychopharmacology and evidence-based medicine. He has published a number of respected meta-analyses on treatments for schizophrenia and also has a research interest in pharmacogenetics and medical decision making. He is one of the editors of the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group and has published as a first author in the American Journal of Psychiatry, the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, Lancet, Nervenarzt, Psychopharmacology, Schizophrenia Research and The Cochrane Library.

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