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Edna Grünblatt,
Zurich, Switzerland 
Edna Grünblatt, Ph.D.
Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
University of Zurich
Eisengasse 16
CH-8008 Zurich
Birth: 21st February 1972 in Nahariya / Israel
Citizenship: Swiss & Israeli
Marital Status: Married + two children (Benjamin & Rebecca Ikes)
SCIENTIFIC EXPERIENCE
Since 01.01.2009 Head of the Neurobiochemistry Laboratory at the Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Zürich (KJPD), Zürich Switzerland.
Since 28.04.2008 Associate Professor in Clinical Neurochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Würzburg, Germany.
10.2000-04.2008 Post-Doc and Research Fellow in the Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory and the NPF excellence centre, Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychosomatic and Psychotherapy, Uni. Würzburg, Germany.
10.1998-10.2000 Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Pharmacology and the NPF excellence centre, Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
10.1996-10.1998 M.Sc. Student, Dept. of Pharmacology and the NPF excellence centre, Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
7.1997-10.1997 Summer traineeship in Novartis AG, Basel, Switzerland, at the Neuroscience laboratories in molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases.
7.1995-10.1995 Summer traineeship in the Fraunhofer Institute - Chemische Technologie - ICT / Germany. Detection of various materials in a new method of U.I.R.
7.1994-10.1994 Summer traineeship in laboratories of Frutarom Ltd. Akko / Israel, Petrochemical. Inorganic laboratory: quality control and environmental control.
ACADEMIC DEGREE
12.2006-04.2008 Habilitation, Clinical Neurochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Würzburg, Germany.
1998-2000 Doctorate, Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Completion: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.)
1996-1998 Master, Department of Pharmacology Faculty of Medicine, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Completion: Master of Science in Medical Science (Cum Laude)
1994-1997 Bachelor, Faculty of Biology, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Completion: Bachelor of Art in Biology (Cum Laude)
1992-1996 Bachelor, Faculty for Chemical Engineering, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Completion: Bachelor of Science Chemical Engineer (Cum Laude)
MILITARY SERVICE
1990-1992 Israeli Defense Forces, Air force
GRADUATION
1984-1990 High school (Biology and Technical Graduation); Nahariya, Israel.
Completion: Matriculation
1979-1984 Elementary School, Nahariya, Israel.
1982-1983 Foreign Semesters in the Israeli Elementary School, Ibadan, Nigeria.
HONORS
07.1999 Congress Fellowship, International Federation of Parkinson’s Disease Foundations, Inc.
12.1999 Award for excellence of poster presentation in the annual meeting of the Israel society for oxygen and free radical research and the 13th Rappaport symposium, Haifa, Israel, December 5, 1999.
03.2001 Award for the best scientific poster on the subject: Early and late changes in MPTP mice model of Parkinson’s disease, in the 2. Deutscher Parkinson-Kongress, Bochum, March 7-10, 2001.
07.2002 Travel Fellowship, The 8th International Conference on Alzheimer’s disease and Related Disorders, Alzheimer’s Association. Stockholm, Sweden, July 20-25th, 2002.
10.2002 Congress Fellowship, 8th Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biologische Psychiatrie, Düsseldorf, Germany, 10-12th October 2002.
02.2005 Travel Grant, 4. Deutscher Parkinson-Kongress, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 3-5th March, 2005.
06.2005 Fellowship-Program der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Biologische Psychiatrie zum 8th World Congress of Biological Psychiatry. Wien, Östereich, 28. Juni bis 3. Juli, 2005.
11.2005 Der Hirnliga-Forschungspreis. Hirnliga e.V. (Geteilt mit Dr. Henrike Wolf, Psychiatrie Klinik, Leipzig)
12.2007 Travel Grant, XVII WFN World Congress on Parkinson’s disease and Related Disorders, 9th -13th December 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherland.
04.2008 Merz Preis für Hirnforschung, VITA-Study (Shared with Prof. P- Fischer & Mag. S. Jungwirth).
09.2008 Genomic Pioneers, The Most Admired Researcher Award for outstanding contribution in the field of Genomic, HGM 2008, HUGO.
MEMBERSHIP
01.12.2010-today Swiss Society for Neuroscience
01.03.2006-today Associated Editor in Journal of Alzheimer’s disease
01.2006-today Neurowissenschaftliche Gesllschaft e.V.
01.05.2005-today Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biologische Psychiatrie
01.01.2001-today Deutsche Parkinson Gesellschaft e.V.
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| Presentations by Edna Grünblatt currently available on MultiWebcast.com |
Plenary Sessions - XIX World Congress on Parkinson's Disease and Related Disorders
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Parkinson's Disease: Molecular Risk Factors
2011-11-12 - English
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Parkinson\'s disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder second most common after Alzheimer´s disease. Diagnosis remains clinical, based on phenotypic patterns. In the last decay many attempt in developing early differential pre-clinical markers were...(more) |
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