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Marcus Ising, Dr. phil.

Research group leader
Text Link Intern RG Ising: Molecular Psychology
Phone: 089/30622-430
Fax: 089/30622-544
Email: ising[a]mpipsykl.mpg.de
Interests: Clinical psychology, neuroendocrinology and stress research, psychiat-ric genomics, psychiatric epidemiology
   
CV:
Born in Würzburg. Study of psychology at the Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg. 1994 – 1999 research assistant at the Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, University of Würzburg. Since 2000 at the Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, 2004 to 2005 head of the research group Psychobiology, since 2006 head of the research group Molecular Psychology.
Selected publications:
Holsboer F, Ising M. Stress hormone regulation: biological role and translation into therapy. Annual Review of Psychology 2010; 61:81-109.

Ising M, Lucae S, Binder EB, Bettecken T, Uhr M, Ripke S, Kohli MA, Hennings JM, Horstmann S, Kloiber S, Menke A, Bondy B, Rupprecht R, Domschke K, Baune BT, Arolt V, Rush JA, Holsboer F, Müller-Myhsok B. A genome-wide association study points to multiple loci that predict antidepressant drug treatment outcome in depression. Archives of General Psychiatry 2009; 66:966-975.

Ising M, Depping AM, Siebertz A, Lucae S, Unschuld PG, Kloiber S, Horstmann S, Uhr M, Müller-Myhsok B, Holsboer F. Polymorphisms in the FKBP5 gene region modulate recovery from psychosocial stress in healthy controls. Eur J Neurosci 2008; 28:389-398.

Ising M, Zimmermann US, Künzel HE, Uhr M, Foster AC, Learned-Coughlin SM, Holsboer F, Grigoriadis DE. High-Affinity CRF(1) Receptor Antagonist NBI-34041: Preclinical and Clinical Data Suggest Safety and Efficacy in Attenuating Elevated Stress Response. Neuro-psychopharmacology 2007; 32:1941-1949.

Ising M, Horstmann S, Kloiber S, Lucae S, Binder EB, Kern N, Künzel HE, Pfennig A, Uhr M, Holsboer F. Combined dexamethasone/corticotropin releasing hormone test predicts treatment response in major depression-a potential biomarker? Biol. Psychiatry 2007; 62:47-54.

Ising M, Künzel HE, Binder EB, Nickel T, Modell S, Holsboer F. The combined dexa-methasone / CRH test as a potential surrogate marker in depression. Prog. Neuropsychopharmacol. Biol. Psychiatry 2005; 29:1085-1093.