New EU addiction project utiliises deCODE (Iceland) database

The European Union is providing 8.1 million euro for the GENADDICT Integrated Project which gathers eight leading public and private research organisations under the coordination of Professor Ian Kitchen from the University of Surrey, UK. The project is funded under the ‘Life sciences, genomics and biotechnology for health’ section of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) .

Working with Iceland’s National Centre of Addiction Medicine, deCODE genetics will carry out genotyping of individuals with alcohol, nicotine, cocaine and other addictions in order to characterise their genetic make up, and will then look at their family histories in order to try to identify those genes associated with addiction.

News Source: Cordis Rapidus