Topic: drugs

Alvin Roth examines markets whose transactions raise moral objections even when buyers and sellers agree on a price. Examples include organ sales, adoption, drugs and sex work. The conversation asks how societies reason about contested exchanges, what economic analysis can contribute beyond price efficiency, and what these cases reveal about the organisation and limits of markets.

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified multiple disease-associated genetic variations across different psychiatric disorders raising the question of how these genetic variants relate to the corresponding pharmacological treatments. In this talk, I will outline our work investigating whether functional information from a range of open bioinformatics datasets such as protein interaction network (PPI), brain eQTL, and gene expression pattern across the brain can uncover the relationship between GWAS-identified genetic variation and the genes targeted by current drugs for psychiatr