The CIBERSAM UGR Group: Promoting mental health research in Andalusia

This paper briefly describes both main research lines and structure of our CIBERSAM University of Granada research group based at Granada University in South Spain. We are a Multidisciplinary team working in three different research lines adscribed to two smaller psychiatric research groups. Thus, PSYBAM group includes psychiatrists. biologists and psychologists and focus on both psychiatric phenotype definition and gene-by-environment interactions/pharmacogenetics. On the other hand, the older GAISAM group concentrates on epidemiological and social aspects of psychiatry and its members are psychiatrists and psychologists. We have funding from European, Spanish and Andalusian sources and most of our researchers are based at the Centro de Investigaciones Biomedicas within Granada University.