Eske Derks of QIMR Berghofer is challenging the scientific community to deliver a new era of precision psychiatry through the 'extraordinary genetic discoveries'.
Queensland scientists have identified huge opportunities to develop better treatments for mental health disorders, based on significant genetic breakthroughs of the past decade.A researcher says progress identifying genes linked to mental health has not led to enough drug breakthroughsTreatments for psychiatric patients could be found through repurposing approved drugs
She has issued a challenge to the international scientific community to deliver a new era of precision psychiatry by tapping into the many "extraordinary genetic discoveries" during the past 10 years to find better mental health treatments."Let's get together and think about ways we can translate this information into better treatments. I think that's something that will happen.
Researcher's Professor Eske Derks, Dr Zachary Gerring and Jackson Thorp worked on the paper with Professor Derks.
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