CUHK proposes bioinformatics approach to reposition drugs Anti-inflammatory and lipid-lowering agents may treat psychiatric disorders
(WorldNews China)

A research team led by Prof. Hon-Cheong SO, Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), has generated a list of drugs that may potentially be repurposed to treat psychiatric disorders. This was done by applying bioinformatics approach to analysing data from the genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of seven psychiatric disorders and the expression profiles of 1,309 existing drugs. Prof. So and his team hope that this approach can be applied to other complex diseases, especially those with few known treatments, providing additional choices of...