Jurjen Luykx

Assistant Professor - medical

Biography

Jurjen Luykx obtained his medical degree at Utrecht University in 2005. He was a visiting scholar and was trained in neurogenetics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2006/2007. In 2012 he finished his residency in psychiatry and has since held several clinical consultant positions at psychiatric hospitals in Arnhem and the Utrecht area. In March 2013 he obtained his PhD in neuropsychiatric genetics at Utrecht University. Starting February 1st, 2019 he heads the residency program at GGNet Mental Healthy in Apeldoorn, where he also sees outpatients suffering from a range of psychiatric disorders.

Education and positions in academia

Current: University Medical Center Utrecht Utrecht, The Netherlands
Human Neurogenetics Unit, Head of Program in Psychiatric Genetics 
2007 – 2013 University Medical Center Utrecht Utrecht
Ph.D. program (“Determinants of Neurotransmitters in Cerebrospinal Fluid and Plasma”)
2006 – 2007 University of California (UCLA) Los Angeles, USA
Program in Neurogenetics
1999 – 2005 Utrecht University Utrecht
Doctor of...

Recent publications

Van AI tot polygene risicoscores Jakob M. van Gaalen, Aefke ten Hagen, Christiaan H. Vinkers, Jurjen J. Luykx
Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie, 2025, vol. 67, p.100-104
Determinants of patient satisfaction in clozapine users Marte Z van der Horst, Nini de Boer, Cynthia Okhuijsen-Pfeifer, Jurjen J Luykx,
Schizophrenia, 2025, vol. 11
Het risico op pneumonie bij schizofrenie J. J. Luykx
Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie, 2025, vol. 67, p.57
Trans-ancestry genome-wide study of depression identifies 697 associations implicating cell types and pharmacotherapies Mark J. Adams, Fabian Streit, Xiangrui Meng, Swapnil Awasthi, Brett N. Adey, Karmel W. Choi, V. Kartik Chundru, Jonathan R.I. Coleman, Bart Ferwerda, Jerome C. Foo, Zachary F. Gerring, Olga Giannakopoulou, Priya Gupta, Alisha S.M. Hall, Arvid Harder, David M. Howard, Christopher Hübel, Alex S.F. Kwong, Daniel F. Levey,...
The time has come for revising the rules of clozapine blood monitoring in Europe. A joint expert statement from the European Clozapine Task Force Hélène Verdoux, Robert A. Bittner, Alkomiet Hasan, Mishal Qubad, Elias Wagner, Alexis Lepetit, Manuel Arrojo-Romero, Christian Bachmann, Marieke Beex-Oosterhuis, Jan Bogers, Andreja Celofiga, Dan Cohen, Domenico De Berardis, Marc De Hert, Carlos De Las Cuevas, Bjorn H. Ebdrup, Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis, Daniel Guinart, Dolores Keating, Miloslav Kopeček, John Lally,...
Positive associations between mean ambient temperature and involuntary admissions to psychiatric facilities Noah L. Joore, Marte Z. van der Horst, Eric O. Noorthoorn, Jurriaan F.M. Strous, Fleur J. Vruwink, Sinan Guloksuz, Peter C. Siegmund, Jurjen J. Luykx
European Psychiatry, 2025, vol. 68

Fellowships & Awards

Amount

Year

Topic

Funded by

€200,000 (personal grant)

2014

Next-generation targeted sequencing

Brain division, UMCU

€149,000 (main applicant)

2015

Emergency psychiatry guidelines

SKMS

€309,000 (main applicant)

2017

Imaging genomics

ALS foundation

€260,000 (co-applicant)

2018

Genetic Counseling Consortium

COST