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Elisabeth B. Binder

Elisabeth B. Binder

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Best Female Scientists
2025

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60869
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3085
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Elisabeth B. Binder is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has made contributions primarily in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Molecular Biology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Genetics, Behavioral Neuroscience, and Clinical Psychology.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics such as Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Birth, Development, and Health, Tryptophan and brain disorders, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Mental Health Research Topics, and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies.

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Neurobiology of Stress
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology

Notable recent papers include:

  • Dissecting the Association Between Inflammation, Metabolic Dysregulation, and Specific Depressive Symptoms (2020) - JAMA Psychiatry
  • Genome-wide gene-environment analyses of major depressive disorder and reported lifetime traumatic experiences in UK Biobank (2020) - Molecular Psychiatry
  • The Genetic Architecture of Depression in Individuals of East Asian Ancestry (2021) - JAMA Psychiatry
  • Epigenome-wide meta-analysis of blood DNA methylation in newborns and children identifies numerous loci related to gestational age (2020) - Genome Medicine
  • A phenome-wide association and Mendelian Randomisation study of polygenic risk for depression in UK Biobank (2020) - Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Elisabeth B. Binder include:

  • Scott L. Rauch
  • Kazufumi Akiyama
  • Deanna M. Barch
  • David Braff
  • Kristen Brennand

In recognition of their work, Elisabeth B. Binder was named a Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression

    Naomi R. Wray;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Manuel Mattheisen;MacIej Trzaskowski

  • 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

  • Association of FKBP5 polymorphisms and childhood abuse with risk of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in adults.

    Elisabeth B. Binder;Rebekah G. Bradley;Rebekah G. Bradley;Wei Liu;Michael P. Epstein

  • Allele-specific FKBP5 DNA demethylation mediates gene-childhood trauma interactions

    Torsten Klengel;Divya Mehta;Christoph Anacker;Monika Rex-Haffner

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

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

  • A mega-analysis of genome-wide association studies for major depressive disorder

    Stephan Ripke;Naomi R Wray;Cathryn M Lewis;Steven P Hamilton

  • Current research trends in early life stress and depression: review of human studies on sensitive periods, gene-environment interactions, and epigenetics.

    Christine Heim;Elisabeth B. Binder

  • Polymorphisms in FKBP5 are associated with increased recurrence of depressive episodes and rapid response to antidepressant treatment

    Elisabeth B Binder;Daria Salyakina;Peter Lichtner;Gabriele M Wochnik

  • The role of FKBP5, a co-chaperone of the glucocorticoid receptor in the pathogenesis and therapy of affective and anxiety disorders.

    Elisabeth B. Binder

  • Epigenetic Signatures of Cigarette Smoking

    Roby Joehanes;Allan C. Just;Riccardo E. Marioni;Luke C. Pilling

  • Holocaust Exposure Induced Intergenerational Effects on FKBP5 Methylation

    Rachel Yehuda;Rachel Yehuda;Nikolaos P. Daskalakis;Nikolaos P. Daskalakis;Linda M. Bierer;Linda M. Bierer;Heather N. Bader;Heather N. Bader

  • Post-traumatic stress disorder is associated with PACAP and the PAC1 receptor

    Kerry J. Ressler;Kerry J. Ressler;Kerry J. Ressler;Kristina B. Mercer;Bekh Bradley;Bekh Bradley;Tanja Jovanovic

  • Influence of child abuse on adult depression: moderation by the corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor gene.

    Rebekah G. Bradley;Elisabeth B. Binder;Michael P. Epstein;Yilang Tang

  • The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data

    Paul M. Thompson;Jason L. Stein;Sarah E. Medland;Derrek P. Hibar

  • The transcriptional landscape of age in human peripheral blood

    Marjolein J. Peters;Roby Joehanes;Luke C. Pilling;Claudia Schurmann;Claudia Schurmann

  • Psychiatric genome-wide association study analyses implicate neuronal, immune and histone pathways

    Colm O'Dushlaine;Lizzy Rossin;Phil H. Lee;Laramie Duncan;Laramie Duncan

  • Identification of common variants associated with human hippocampal and intracranial volumes

    Jason L Stein;Sarah E Medland;Sarah E Medland;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Derrek P Hibar

  • Genome wide meta-analysis identifies genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

  • Post-traumatic stress disorder is associated with PACAP and the PAC1

    J. Ressler;Kristina B. Mercer;Bekh Bradley;Tanja Jovanovic

  • A mega-analysis of genome-wide association studies for major depressive disorder

    S. Ripke;N. R. Wray;C. M. Lewis;S. P. Hamilton

Frequent Co-Authors

Florian Holsboer
Florian Holsboer Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
Bertram Müller-Myhsok
Bertram Müller-Myhsok Max Planck Society
Marcus Ising
Marcus Ising Max Planck Society
Kerry J. Ressler
Kerry J. Ressler Harvard University
Manfred Uhr
Manfred Uhr Max Planck Society
Jari Lahti
Jari Lahti University of Helsinki
Katri Räikkönen
Katri Räikkönen University of Helsinki
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Bekh Bradley
Bekh Bradley Emory University
Eero Kajantie
Eero Kajantie Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)

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