In the framework of the studies conducted at the Unit for Research in Schizophrenia (URS, Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Lausanne University Hospital), Prof. Kim Do Cuénod (head of the URS) has established a wide network of collaboration with university institutes and other research centers in Switzerland and abroad. Present collaborations include mainly:

NATIONAL

• Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV):
  Prof. Philippe Conus, Service of General Psychiatry (PGE), Department of Psychiatry
  Dr Alessandra Solida, Section Eugène Minkowski, Department of Psychiatry
  Prof. Martin Preisig, Centre for Psychiatric Epidemiology & Psychopathology (CEPP), Department of Psychiatry
  Dr Patric Hagmann, Service of Radiodiagnosis & Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology
  Prof. John Prior, Service of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology
• Federal School of Technology Lausanne (EPFL):
  Prof. Rolf Gruetter, Prof. Micah Murray, Center for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM)
  Prof. Jean-Philippe Thiran, Signal Processing Laboratory 5 (LTS5)
  Prof. Olaf Blanke, Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience (LNCO) & Center for Neuroprosthetics
• Federal School of Technology Zurich (EPFZ):
  Prof. Dieter Seebach, Laboratory of Organic Chemistry (LOC)
  Dr Urs Meyer, Laboratory of Physiology & Behavior

• Haute Ecole d’Ingénierie et d’Architecture, Fribourg:
  Dr Roger Marti, Institute of Chemical Technology (ChemTech)

INTERNATIONAL

• Harvard University, Boston, USA:
  Prof. Takao Hensch, Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard Medical School
  Prof. Joseph Coyle, Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center
• Takeda, University of Buenos Aires, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA:
  Prof. Patricio O’Donnell, Executive Medical Director
• Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA:
  Prof. Akira Sawa, The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience
• Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA:
  Prof. Rabindra Tirouvanziam, Department of Pediatrics
• University of Pittsburgh, USA:
  Prof. Anthony Grace, Department of Neuroscience
• Columbia University, New York, USA:
  Prof. Alan Brown, Epidemiology and Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center
• North Carolina University, Chapel Hill, USA:
  Prof. Diana Perkins, Department of Psychiatry, UNC School of Medicine
• King’s College, London, UK:
  Prof. James MacCabe, Department of Psychosis Studies
• Prof. Philip McGuire, Department of Psychosis Studies
• University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, D:
  Prof. Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health
• Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa:
  Prof. Dorit Ben-Shachar, Department of Psychiatry, Rambam Health Care Campus

This extensive network shows the significant potential of the URS research program as well as the great interest it arouses among the international scientific community.