Rate My Professor Edwin Van den Oord

Edwin J. C. G. Van den Oord, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy and Co-Director of the Center for Biomarker Research and Precision Medicine, which he founded in 2006. He earned his Ph.D. from Erasmus University Rotterdam in 1993 and was trained in applied statistics and psychiatric genetics. His research develops and applies novel statistical and computational methods, implemented in user-friendly software for high-performance computing clusters, to identify biomarkers that improve disease understanding and personalize treatments by matching patients to the most effective and safe medications. Main applications focus on substance use disorders such as alcohol use disorder and adolescent cannabis use disorder, and psychiatric conditions including autism spectrum disorder, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, and suicide.