Anders Børglum, MD, PhD, is Professor of Medical Genetics and Chair of Personalized Medicine Research at Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University (AU). He is also Director of Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine, Leader of Aarhus Genome-data Center and Chair of the Personalized Medicine Network, AU.
His research focuses on identifying genes that confer risk or resilience to psychiatric disorders, functional characterization of the identified genes and translating the genetic insights to advance precision medicine in psychiatry. The research involves large-scale genomics studies of tens or hundreds of thousands of individuals, analyzing comprehensive multidimensional health and biological omics data.
Anders Børglum was the founding Scientific Director of the iPSYCH project. iPSYCH has established one of the largest psychiatric genetic projects in the world cross-linked with comprehensive longitudinal phenotypic information from Danish registers. The scientific output from this program includes >1,100 papers, cited >55,000 times.
In addition to his roles at AU, Anders Børglum is deeply engaged in the international Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC), serving as Chair of the PGC Autism Working Group, member of the PGC Coordinating Committee and active in several PGC disorder groups.
Anders Børglum has led or co-led large genome-wide studies of major psychiatric disorders, including autism, ADHD, disruptive behavior disorders, schizophrenia, depression and cannabis use disorder, identifying the first risk variants for several of these disorders. He has contributed to numerous other studies of mental disorders.