Christian Rück

Christian Rück is a Professor/Senior Physician at Karolinska Institutet's Department of Clinical Neuroscience, leading research on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), related disorders, and suicide prevention. His work focuses on developing internet-based treatments (e.g., OCD-NET and BDD-NET) and genetic studies. He received the 2024 August Prize for his non-fiction book on suicide.

• Roles: Group leader for the Anxiety, OCD, and Genetics Research Group; teaches psychiatry in MD programs.
• Education: MD (1997), PhD (2006), Docent (2013) from Karolinska Institutet.

Research Interests: Genetic and environmental factors in OCD, internet-delivered therapies, suicide risk assessment (Saving Lives study), and exercise's role in mental health. His group studies OCD's genetic architecture, therapy response variability, and microbiota links.

Grants: Includes projects on suicide cohort construction, cardiometabolic interventions for OCD patients, and machine learning in treatment prediction.

Awards: August Prize for Ett liv värt att leva (2024).

Advising: Supervised PhD student Long Long Chen. Collaborates with global consortia like OCD Genetics Consortium.

Labs/Teams: Rücklab drives interdisciplinary research, integrating genetics, clinical trials, and digital health innovations.