$100,000 grant to University team
Published: 11 April 2014
Dr Daniel Smith from the Institute of Health and Wellbeing has won funding worth $100,000 from the United States for studies into depression-related illness.
Dr Daniel Smith from the Institute of Health and Wellbeing (Colleges of MVLS and Social Sciences) has been awarded a prestigious Independent Investigator Award 2014 from the Brain and Behaviour Research Foundation (also known as NARSAD). Based in New York, NARSAD is the world’s leading private funder of mental health research.
The title of Dr Smith's project is: “Genome-wide association studies of depression and cardiometabolic comorbidity within UK Biobank”. The award is worth $100,000 (£60,000 approx.) and was one of 40 made by the Foundation, worth in total $4 million.
Dr Smith said “I am very grateful for this award from NARSAD. It will help us to build capacity in Glasgow to explore the genetic basis of the overlap between depression and cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension. For the University of Glasgow to receive one of only 40 awards awarded internationally also helps to raise the profile of psychiatric research in Glasgow.”
First published: 11 April 2014
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