The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) recently announced that Oxford University Professor Husseini Manji and his colleagues Dennis Charney and John Krystal, are the recipients of the 2023 Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health.
Professor Hussein Manji works closely with Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and the Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (OH BRC) as Co-chair of the MH Translational Research Collaboration Mental Health Mission.
Together with his colleagues and through their research work around ketamine and its effect on treatment resistant depression, they developed the antidepressant esketamine. For this discovery they have been awarded the prestigious Prize.
Read the full article on the National Academy of Medicine website.