DEPRESSION PROJECT

BY KEITH NUTHALLA NEWLY launched European Union (EU)-funded research project will uncover genetic factors linked to depression, helping to develop new drug treatments over the next five years. The NEWMOOD project has received Euro 7.2 million in EU funding. It will help researchers "revolutionise antidepressant drugs, which have not changed much over the past 30 years," claimed the European Commission. Co-ordinated by the University of Manchester, it involves 13 laboratories in Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia and Spain. ...


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