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ve the millions of patients worldwide who suffer from these debilitating conditions," said Charles B. Nemeroff, MD, PhD, Reunette W. Harris professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in Emory University School of Medicine, who will serve as principal investigator of this new center. Clinton D. Kilts, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and vice-chair for research serves as associate director of the center.

"This exciting program is an ideal example of a scientific collaboration among diverse laboratories and distinct research enterprises that can potentially lead to the rapid development of new drugs that are of tremendous benefit to patients," said Emiliangelo Ratti, senior vice president and head of the GSK Centre of Excellence for Drug Discovery in Psychiatry.

The NIH National Cooperative Drug Discovery Program was developed in order to facilitate innovative drug discovery, the development of pharmacologic tools for basic and clinical research, and the development and validation of models for evaluating novel therapeutics. The partnership among academic research centers, the NIH, and industry is an example of the "research teams of the future" outlined by the NIH in its recently released roadmap for encouraging more streamlined and rapid progression of effective clinical tools and pharmaceuticals from the laboratory into the marketplace and into patient care. The new paradigm for conducting medical research also helps fulfill an NIH goal of advancing the development of rationally designed drugs for mental disorders and drug addiction.

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Contact: Holly Korschun
hkorsch@emory.edu
404-727-3990
Emory University Health Sciences Center
1-Dec-2003

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