Research

Work Packages

Lead

Farmaceutski Fakultet Universitetau Beogradu
Faculty of Pharmacy
Prof Marin Jukic

Co-Lead

Universitätsklinikum Bonn
Institute of Human Genetics
Prof. Markus Nöthen

Participants/Support

  • Karolinska Institute
  • Parnassia Groep BV

Goals

  • Establish logistics for sample collection, processing, storage and shipment at the clinical centres as well as effective communication between clinical centres and central facilities
  • Building of the PSY-PGx DNA biobank
  • Development of the PSY-PGx cellular biobank
  • Perform genotyping for common genetic variants throughout the clinical trial
  • Perform retrospective therapeutic drug level quantification
  • Interpretation of the results obtained in collaboration with WP5 (Clinical Study)

Lead

Fundació Clínic per la Recerca Biomédica
Department of Psychiatry & Psychology
Prof. Eduard Vieta

Co-Lead

University Maastricht
Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology
Prof. Thérèrese van Amelsvoort

Participants/Support

  • King's College London
  • Global Alliance of Mental Illness Advocacy Networks
  • Fundació Clínic per la Recerca Biomédica
  • SUNY Upstate Medical University
  • Universitätsklinikum Bonn

Goals

  • Maintain an stringent strategy for clinical data collection
  • Finalize the Clinical Study Document
  • Monitoring and site visits
  • Quality control
  • Set-up training for clinical staff and patients


Lead

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Groningen Institute of Evolutionary Life Science & Engineering (BEHAPP)
Prof. Martien Kas

Co-Lead

Tel Aviv University
Sackler Faculty of Medicine
Prof. Noam Shomron

Participants/Support

  • Parnassia Groep BV
  • Rijksuniversiteit Groningen


Goals

Prepare the IT foundation for the clinical trial to support the phenotyping of patients during the clinical study via apps.

Lead

Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
Department of Psychology
Dr. Ramona Moldovan

Co-Lead

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Institute of Psychiatric Phenomics and Genomics
PD Dr. Urs Heilbronner

Participants/Support

  • Global Alliance of Mental Illness Advocacy Networks
  • 
World Psychiatric Association

  • Parnassia Groep BV

Goals

  • Define the project security policy and assess the implications and impact on different factors (ethical, psychosocial and economic) that will determine the future adoption of the PSY- PGx approach.
  • Provide reliable information to stakeholders within different healthcare systems across Europe and beyond.

Lead

Parnassia Groep BV
Department of Psychiatry
Ass. Prof. Roos van Westrhenen

Co-Lead

University Maastricht
Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology
Prof. Koen Schruers

Participants/Support

  • Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
  • Tel Aviv University
  • All clinical sites

Goals

  • Use CASTOR to provide a sustainable data infrastructure relying on a powerful IT framework adhering to the highest standards of data protection
  • Adhere to the FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship (findability, accessibility, interoperability, reusability)
  • Design and maintain a stringent strategy to support the work of the consortium by setting up a consortium-stakeholder network, drawing from the diversity of the disciplines involved.

Lead

Helsinki University
Institute for Molecuar Medicine Finland FIMM & Department of Public Health
Prof. Jaakko Kaprio

Co-Lead

King’s College London
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neurosciences
Prof. Allan Young and Dr. Mario Juruena

Participants/Support

  • Tel Aviv University

Goals

Big data will be obtained from Finnish and UK genetic databases to assess pharmacogenetic genotype and clinical outcomes in patients with mood-, anxiety or psychotic disorders to investigate real-world, large-scale and long-term perspectives on outcomes of specific disease – medication stratified by CYP2C19 and CYP2D6 genotype.

Lead

King’s College London                                              
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neurosciences    
Prof. Allan Young and Dr. Mario Juruena

Co-Lead

Universitätsklinikum Bonn
Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
Prof. Alexandra Philipsen

Participants/Support

  • All clinical centers
  • Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Goals

  • Conduct the 24-week randomized, patient- and rater-blind, two-arm, parallel-group controlled trial of pharmacogenetics-informed pharmacotherapy in 9 centers across 7 European countries and the US. This will be done in n=2500 patients starting or alternating psychopharmacotherapy for mood disorders (group 1, n=1250), anxiety disorders (group 2, n=750), and psychotic disorders (group 3, n=500).
  • Big data will be obtained from Finnish and UK genetic databases to assess pharmacogenetic genotype and clinical outcomes in patients with mood-, anxiety or psychotic disorders to investigate real-world, large-scale and long-term perspectives on outcomes of specific disease – medication stratified by CYP2C19 and CYP2D6 genotype.

Lead

Tel Aviv University
Sackler Faculty of Medicine
Prof. Noam Shomron

Co-Lead

Parnassia Groep BV
Department of Psychiatry
Ass. Prof. Roos van Westrhenen

Participants/Support

  • Helsinki University
  • Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Goals

Develop an algorithm with data from the Biobanks from WP4 and the Clinical Trial in WP5

Lead

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Institute of Psychiatric Phenomics and Genomics
PD Dr. Urs Heilbronner

Co-Lead

SUNY Upstate Medical University
Department of Psychiatry
Prof. Thomas G. Schulze

Participants/Support

  • Global Alliance of Mental Illness Advocacy Networks
  • World Psychiatric Association
  • Parnassia Groep BV

Goals

  • Raise awareness of PSY-PGx
  • Involve stakeholders throughout the project
  • Communicate, disseminate and exploit the results achieved adhering to Open Science principles

Lead

Parnassia Groep BV
Department of Psychiatry
Ass. Prof. Roos van Westrhenen

Co-Lead

Universiteit Maastricht
Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology
Prof. Bart Rutten

Participants/Support

  • Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
  • World Psychiatric Association
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Goals

Facilitate the successful completion of the project