Aims of the workshop:

• To exchange information between groups working in pharmacogenetics, especially in London.
• To identify areas of diagnostics and genetics services research that could lead to patient benefit in the short term.

Summaries and Presentations:

(Please note that copyright of the presentation slides remains with the authors)

Advances in the pharmacogenetic prediction of antipsychotic response

Professor Robert Kerwin, Clinical Neuropharmacology, Institute of Psychiatry

Summary and Presentation

Pharmacogenetics: Progress, Pitfalls and Clinical Potential

Professor Steve Humphries, Cardiovascular Genetics, University College London.

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Pharmacogenetics of immunosuppression in organ transplantation

Dr Iain MacPhee, Cellular and Molecular Medicine: Renal Medicine, St. George’s, University of London.

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CYP450 genotyping in psychiatry – from research to clinical application, focussing on CYP2D6 and CYP2C19

Dr Kathy Aitchison, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London.

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Pharmacogenetics of HIV Therapy

Professor Munir Pirmohamed, University of Liverpool.

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Inherited Variation and Clinical Cancer Care

Dr James Mackay, Consultant Clinical Genetic Oncologist, University College London.

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Mapping options for the development of pharmacogenetics: how industry, regulators, clinicians and policymakers are shaping the field

Dr Paul Martin, Institute for the Study of Genetics, Biorisk and Society, University of Nottingham.

Summary and Presentation