Martin KennedyProfessor Kennedy obtained his BSc (Hons) at University of Canterbury, and his PhD in bacterial genetics at the University of Auckland and carried out postdoctoral research in leukemia genetics at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge (UK) bfore returning to University of Otago, Christchurch in 1991. Professor Martin Kennedy's main research interests are psychiatric genetics, pharmacogenomics, and the genetics of complex disease. His current research largely focuses on pharmacogenomics, which aims to understand how drugs and genes interact with the goal of improving drug treatments and reducing adverse drug reactions. For example, analysis of genetic variation in genes such as those that encode drug metabolizing liver enzymes like CYP2D6 and CYP2C19, is helping to determine genetic factors that impact on response to treatments for various diseases. Read More Read Less