Jurjen Luykx

Dr. Jurjen Luykx is a clinical scientist affiliated with Amsterdam University Medical Center and GGZ InGeest, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has a research background in psychiatric genetics and a broad interest in neurobiological, clinical, environmental, and societal issues related to psychiatry (including planetary mental health). Several days of the week he works as a clinical psychiatrist, consulting patients with difficult-to-treat psychosis, bipolar disorder and other types of severe mental illness. He enjoys conducting collaborative work in teams of researchers and clinicians, focusing on clinical trials, real-world studies and applied neuropsychiatric genetics (e.g. genetic epidemiology and cell type enrichment analysis). His overarching aim is to translate research findings to patients in the real world and convey such findings to medical students and residents, thus boosting precision psychiatry.