Andrew McIntosh (Affiliate)

Using genetic discoveries to identify the mechanisms of mental illness and resilience

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Professor Andrew McIntosh

Research in a Nutshell

Professor McIntosh’s uses genetic variants as instruments to better understand the mechanisms of mood disorders, cognitive ability, resilience and related traits. He collaborates with others and uses a number of methods, including NHS data linkage, clinical and psychometric assessment, brain imaging and studies of human cell lines derived from induced pluripotent stem cells.


 

People

Prof Andrew McIntoshGroup Leader
Mark AdamsResearch Fellow
Matthew IversonSenior Data Scientist
Carys PughResearch Fellow
Alex KwongResearch Fellow
Elizabeth KirkhamResearch Fellow
Iona BeangeKnowledge Exchange Officer
Emma HawkinsData Administrator
Shen XueyiPhD Student
Dominic SykesPhD Student
Anders JespersenPhD Student
Melissa LewinsPhD Student
Melisa ChuongPhD Student (With Chris Haley)

Contact

andrew.mcintosh@ed.ac.uk

 

 

Collaborations

  • Professor Ian Deary, University of Edinburgh 
  • Professor Kathryn Evans, University of Edinburgh 
  • Professor David Glahn, Yale University
  • Professor Daniel Smith, University of Glasgow
  • The Psychiatric Genomics Consortium

Partners and Funders

  • Wellcome Trust
  • National Institutes of Health
  • European Union
  • UKRI MRC

Scientific Themes

Psychiatric genetics and genomics, brain imaging, data science, stem cells

Technology Expertise

Clinical psychiatric assessment, statistics

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