Research
The Neuromedicines Discovery Centre (NDC) takes a holistic approach to mental health conditions, tackling the problem at scale via a comprehensive, matrixed approach: multiple medicines and regimens evaluated in different mental health conditions across representative patient cohorts, backed up by world-class research into the development of next generation therapeutics and rigorously designed clinical trials.
An example is psychedelic research, which to date has been conducted in a piecemeal fashion. With limited funds, often from small philanthropic grants, researchers have been restricted to narrow enquiries: most often a single drug and regimen, tested against one condition in a small patient cohort – often in an open-label manner with minimal blinding and limited placebo controls.
To deliver mental health innovation, we’ve organised our research into three themes:
