David Collier

Kings College London, United Kingdom

David Collier

Academic positions:
- Professor of Neuropsychiatric Genetics

Any industry positions (last five years):
None declared

Research interests:
Dr Collier's research interests are in psychiatric and neuropsychiatric research, including molecular genetics, bioinformatics, analysis of psychosocial risk factors and gene-environment interaction. His research focuses on the major psychoses schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and the eating disorders anorexia and bulimia nervosa. His current projects are aimed at the identification of genetic risk factors for these disorders, using family based and case control association methods. This includes the use of statistical methods to analyse haplotypes and quantitative disease-related traits, and detailed bioinformatics analysis of the genome to identify candidate genes and polymorphisms. He is also involved in research into environmental risk factors and neurobiological changes in the eating disorders anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, and research into pharmacogenetic factors in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

Any other information:

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Section Head: Psychiatry > Eating Disorders (since 16 November 2005)

David Collier is a Section Head for Eating Disorders, part of the PSYCHIATRY Faculty. The role of a Section Head is to work with their Co-Section Head(s) to divide the Section (sub-specialty area) into its component areas of research, nominate leaders in those areas as Faculty Members, and offer ongoing oversight of the content within their Section. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.

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