Michael Eriksen Benros

Professor Michael E. Benros, MD, PhD, is Chief Physician and Head of the Copenhagen Research Center for Biological and Precision Psychiatry, at the Mental Health Centre Copenhagen, Copenhagen University Hospital and at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

He is recognized internationally for being at the forefront of the emerging field of ImmunoPsychiatry aiming to disentangle the role of the immune system in the development of severe mental disorders, combining immune exposures from the nationwide Danish registers, with immunogenetic investigations, and novel research on cerebrospinal fluid and blood obtained from biobank and clinical studies of patients with psychotic and affective disorders.