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Defining the brain circuits involved in psychiatric disorders: IMI-NEWMEDS

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Despite the vast amount of research on schizophrenia and depression in the past two decades, there have been few innovative drugs to treat these disorders. Precompetitive research collaborations between companies and academic groups can help tackle this innovation deficit, as illustrated by the achievements of the IMI-NEWMEDS consortium.

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  1. Department of Neurochemistry and Neuropharmacology, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques de Barcelona, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Barcelona, 08036, Spain

    Francesc Artigas, Pau Celada, Laia Lladó-Pelfort, Noemi Jurado, Mercedes Núñez, Noemi Santana, Eva Troyano-Rodriguez, Maurizio S. Riga, Hanna van den Munkhof & Anna Castañé

  2. CIBERSAM (Centro de Investigació Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental), Madrid, 28029, Spain

    Francesc Artigas, Pau Celada, Laia Lladó-Pelfort, Noemi Jurado, Mercedes Núñez, Noemi Santana, Eva Troyano-Rodriguez, Maurizio S. Riga, Hanna van den Munkhof & Anna Castañé

  3. Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, 08036, Spain

    Francesc Artigas, Pau Celada, Laia Lladó-Pelfort, Noemi Jurado, Mercedes Núñez, Noemi Santana, Eva Troyano-Rodriguez, Maurizio S. Riga, Hanna van den Munkhof & Anna Castañé

  4. Institute de Recherches SERVIER, Croissy sur Seine, 78290, France

    Esther Schenker & Michael Spedding

  5. Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, Beerse, 2340, Belgium

    Hamdy Shaban

  6. UMR_S 894 Inserm, Centre de Psychiatrie et Neurosciences, Paris, 75014, France

    Thérèse M. Jay, Anushree Tripathi & Bill P. Godsil

  7. Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), CNRS UMR, 8246, INSERM U1130, Paris, 75252, France

    Claude Sebban, Jean Mariani, Philippe Faure & Samir Takkilah

  8. Pfizer Global Research, 610 Main Street, Cambridge, 02139, Massachusetts, USA

    Zoe A. Hughes, Chester J. Siok & Mihaily Hajos

  9. AbbVie Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, Knollstrasse, 67061, Ludwigshafen, Germany

    Karsten Wicke

  10. Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, 68159, Germany

    Natalia Gass, Wolfgang Weber-Fahr, Alexander Sartorius, Robert Becker & Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg

  11. Lundbeck A/S, Valby, 2500, Denmark

    Michael Didriksen & Jesper F. Bastlund

  12. Lilly Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Eli Lilly & Co. Ltd, Erl Wood Manor, Windlesham, GU20 6PH, Surrey, UK

    Mark Tricklebank

  13. Pharmaceuticals Division, CNS Biomarker, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel, 4070, Switzerland

    Céline Risterucci

  14. Lilly Research Laboratories, 835 S Delaware Street, Indianapolis, 46285, Indiana, USA

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Artigas, F., Schenker, E., Celada, P. et al. Defining the brain circuits involved in psychiatric disorders: IMI-NEWMEDS. Nat Rev Drug Discov 16, 1–2 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrd.2016.205

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