| Titels | Prof. dr. |
| Initials | B. |
| Main position | Hoogleraar RU |
| Disciplines | Genetics |
| Psychiatry, clinical psychology | |
| Chair | Moleculaire psychiatrie |
| Domain | Medical, Biomedical and Health Sciences |
| Member of | |
| Member of Medical, Biomedical and Health Sciences | |
| Employed by |
Radboud Universitair Medisch Centrum
Donders Instituut, Afdelingen Genetica en Psychiatrie, Huispost 855 Postbus 9101 6500 HB Nijmegen tel. 024 361 0181 barbara.franke@radboudumc.nl |
| Personal website | |
| Research/publications |
Barbara Franke is an expert on the link between genetics and such disorders as ADHD, dyslexia and autism. For example, she studied which aspects of ADHD and autism are hereditary and which are not. She and her team have also shown, at the molecular level, how ADHD in children differs from ADHD in adults. In another study, Franke engineered a strain of fruit flies with ADHD to study the influence of genes on behaviour. Unlike in humans, the genes of these insects can be switched on and off easily. Franke is popular with the media, patient organisations and government.