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Austria
2026

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Medicine

D-Index
135
Citations
102499
World Ranking
2017
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Dan Rujescu is affiliated with the Medical University of Vienna in Austria and has contributed extensively to research in medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their scholarly work spans various subfields including genetics, psychiatry and mental health, molecular biology, pharmacology, and biological psychiatry.

Their research covers multiple main topics, such as genetic associations and epidemiology, treatment of major depression, tryptophan and brain disorders, bipolar disorder and its treatment, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, schizophrenia research and treatment, and broader mental health research topics.

Rujescu has published papers in several prominent venues. Frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), European Neuropsychopharmacology, Translational Psychiatry, The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, and Molecular Psychiatry.

Their notable recent publications consist of:

  • Natural History, Phenotypic Spectrum, and Discriminative Features of Multisystemic RFC1 Disease, 2021, Neurology
  • Genome-wide association study identifies 48 common genetic variants associated with handedness, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Framework and baseline examination of the German National Cohort (NAKO), 2022, European Journal of Epidemiology
  • Sex-Dependent Shared and Nonshared Genetic Architecture Across Mood and Psychotic Disorders, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • Identifying the Common Genetic Basis of Antidepressant Response, 2021, Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science

Among frequent collaborators, Rujescu has worked with Daniel Souery, Alessandro Serretti, Joseph Zohar, Stuart Montgomery, and Chiara Fabbri, reflecting a network within psychiatric and genetic research communities.

Best Publications

  • Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

    Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Aiden Corvin;James T. R. Walters

  • Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals identifies 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease

    Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Carla A Ibrahim-Verbaas;Denise Harold;Adam C Naj

  • Genome-wide association study identifies variants at CLU and PICALM associated with Alzheimer's disease

    Denise Harold;Richard Abraham;Paul Hollingworth;Rebecca Sims

  • Variant of TREM2 associated with the risk of Alzheimer's disease

    Thorlakur Jonsson;Hreinn Stefansson;Stacy Steinberg;Ingileif Jonsdottir

  • Erratum: Genome-wide association study identifies variants at CLU and PICALM associated with Alzheimer's disease (Nature Genetics (2009) 41 (1088-1093))

    D Harold;R Abraham;P Hollingworth;R Sims

  • Genome-wide association study identifies five new schizophrenia loci

    Stephan Ripke;Alan R. Sanders;Kenneth S. Kendler;Douglas F. Levinson

  • Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs

    S. Hong Lee;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Stephen V. Faraone

  • Common variants at ABCA7, MS4A6A/MS4A4E, EPHA1, CD33 and CD2AP are associated with Alzheimer's disease.

    Paul Hollingworth;Denise Harold;Rebecca Sims;Amy Gerrish

  • Large recurrent microdeletions associated with schizophrenia

    Hreinn Stefansson;Dan Rujescu;Sven Cichon;Olli P. H. Pietilainen

  • Common variants conferring risk of schizophrenia

    Hreinn Stefansson;Hreinn Stefansson;Roel A. Ophoff;Roel A. Ophoff;Roel A. Ophoff;Stacy Steinberg;Stacy Steinberg;Ole A. Andreassen

  • Genome-wide association analysis identifies 13 new risk loci for schizophrenia

    Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Colm T. O'Dushlaine;Kimberly D. Chambert;Jennifer L. Moran

  • Common schizophrenia alleles are enriched in mutation-intolerant genes and in regions under strong background selection

    Antonio F. Pardiñas;Peter Holmans;Andrew J. Pocklington;Valentina Escott-Price

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

    Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

  • Genome-wide association meta-analysis in 269,867 individuals identifies new genetic and functional links to intelligence

    Jeanne E Savage;Philip R Jansen;Philip R Jansen;Sven Stringer;Kyoko Watanabe

  • Gene-wide analysis detects two new susceptibility genes for Alzheimer's disease.

    Valentina Escott-Price;Céline Bellenguez;Li-San Wang;Seung-Hoan Choi

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

  • Identification of loci associated with schizophrenia by genome-wide association and follow-up

    Michael C. O'Donovan;Nicholas Craddock;Nadine Norton;Hywel Williams

  • Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease

    Rebecca Sims;Sven J. Van Der Lee;Adam C. Naj;Céline Bellenguez;Céline Bellenguez

  • Contribution of copy number variants to schizophrenia from a genome-wide study of 41,321 subjects

    Christian R Marshall;Daniel P Howrigan;Daniel P Howrigan;Daniele Merico;Bhooma Thiruvahindrapuram

  • Genome-wide association study identifies variants at CLU and PICALM associated with Alzheimertextquotesingles disease

    Denise Harold;Richard Abraham;Paul Hollingworth;Rebecca Sims

Frequent Co-Authors

Ina Giegling
Ina Giegling Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Ole A. Andreassen
Ole A. Andreassen Oslo University Hospital
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki
Srdjan Djurovic
Srdjan Djurovic Oslo University Hospital
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel
Ingrid Melle
Ingrid Melle University of Oslo
Roel A. Ophoff
Roel A. Ophoff University of California, Los Angeles
Thomas Werge
Thomas Werge University of Copenhagen
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Michael Conlon O'Donovan
Michael Conlon O'Donovan Cardiff University

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