Dr Andrew D. Bretherick
Senior Lecturer in Molecular Psychiatry
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
- School of Neurological and Cardiovascular Sciences
- College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Contact details
- Email: a.bretherick@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
The Chancellor's Building
49 Little France Crescent - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH16 4SB
Background
Dr Andrew Bretherick is a Senior Lecturer in Molecular Psychiatry in the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. He has extensive expertise in drug-target discovery using genetics and molecular traits.
He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in Medical Sciences (with first class honours in Molecular Biology) in 2006, and Medicine in 2009. Following an academic foundation post in the south-east of Scotland, he worked in Queensland, Australia in 2011/2012, before returning to undertake clinical training in Anaesthetics. He was appointed to the prestigious Wellcome funded Edinburgh Clinical Academic Track (ECAT) scheme in 2015, completing a PhD in Quantitative Genetics in 2020 and clinical training in Anaesthetics in 2023. He has previously worked as a Senior Clinical Research Fellow in the MRC Human Genetics Unit of the University of Edinburgh and as an Honorary Consultant in Anaesthetics for NHS Tayside in Pain Medicine.
Research summary
Drug-target Discovery; Instrumental Variable Analysis; Quantitative Genetics; Machine Learning; Molecular Psychiatry.