Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Chris Langmead is Professor, Deputy Director, and Better Medicines Theme Leader of the Neuromedicines Discovery Centre at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS), a collaborative venture targeting new medicines development for poorly-treated mental health disorders. He also directs a collaborative neuroscience R&D program with Servier (France) and is the co-founder and CEO of Phrenix Therapeutics, a biotech spin-out from the Neuromedicines Discovery Centre that is developing next-generation therapeutics for schizophrenia.
Prior to these roles this he was Head of Pharmacology at Heptares Therapeutics Ltd., a UK-based biotechnology company (2009-2012), where he was responsible all of the company’s discovery biology. He is an acknowledged expert in drug discovery, particularly in the field of psychiatry, where he has led multiple projects into late stage preclinical development, many of which have progressed into clinical trials. These successes enabled the US$400M sale of Heptares Therapeutics Ltd. to the Sosei Group Corporation in 2015. Prior to joining Heptares, Chris was a neuroscience researcher at GlaxoSmithKline, UK (1998-2009).
He has a degree and PhD in pharmacology from Queens' College, Cambridge and University College London, respectively, was the youngest person to be elected as a Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society in 2012, and was the recipient of the British Pharmacological Society Novartis Prize in 2017. Chris serves on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Pharmacology, ACS Chemical Neuroscience, ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science and Frontiers in Pharmacology. He is also a corresponding member of NC-IUPHAR. He has published over 70 research articles, reviews and book chapters on drug discovery, which have been cited over 5000 times.
Monash teaching commitment
Supervision of Honours and HDR students in the Neuromedicines Discovery Centre
Research interests
- Drug discovery (target validation, hit identification, lead optimisation)
- Next-generation medicines for mental health and CNS disorders
- Allosteric modulation of GPCRs
- Molecular and analytical pharmacology
- Research translation and commercialisation
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research area keywords
- G protein-coupled receptors
- drug discovery
- hit identification
- high throughput screening
- muscarinic receptors
- neuropharmacology
- analytical pharmacology
- allosteric modulation
- structure-function
- target validation
- hit-to-lead
- lead optimisation
- psychiatric disorders
- cognitive disorders
Network
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Novel GPR52 agonists for schizophrenia / Phrenix Therapeutics
Stewart, G., Langmead, C., Nithianantharajah, J. & Baell, J.
1/06/22 → …
Project: Research
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Human high-throughput in-vitro phenotypic screening for new epilepsy drugs
Rollo, B., Kwan, P., O'Brien, T., Langmead, C., Baell, J., Casillas-Espinosa, P., May, L., Ayers, K. L. & Sumer, H.
1/06/22 → 1/01/23
Project: Research
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Discovering new drugs for epilepsy using personalised medicine
Kwan, P., Rollo, B., Langmead, C., Ayers, K. L. & Harris, A.
1/06/20 → 31/05/22
Project: Research
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Does clozapine treat antipsychotic-induced behavioural supersensitivity through glutamate modulation within the striatum?
Tibrewal, P., Nair, P. C., Gregory, K. J., Langmead, C. J., Chan, S. K. W. & Bastiampillai, T., 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Molecular Psychiatry. 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment / Debate › Other › peer-review
Open Access -
Beyond antipsychotics: a twenty-first century update for preclinical development of schizophrenia therapeutics
Spark, D. L., Fornito, A., Langmead, C. J. & Stewart, G. D., Dec 2022, In: Translational Psychiatry. 12, 1, 11 p., 147.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access12 Citations (Scopus) -
Binding of SEP-363856 within TAAR1 and the 5HT1A receptor: implications for the design of novel antipsychotic drugs
Nair, P. C., Miners, J. O., McKinnon, R. A., Langmead, C. J., Gregory, K. J., Copolov, D., Chan, S. K. W. & Bastiampillai, T., Jan 2022, In: Molecular Psychiatry. 27, 1, p. 88–94 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access8 Citations (Scopus) -
M1 muscarinic receptor activation decreases alcohol consumption via a reduction in consummatory behavior
Walker, L. C., Campbell, E. J., Huckstep, K. L., Chen, N. A., Langmead, C. J. & Lawrence, A. J., Feb 2022, In: Pharmacology Research & Perspectives. 10, 1, 10 p., e00907.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access4 Citations (Scopus) -
Multipathway In Vitro Pharmacological Characterization of Specialized Proresolving G Protein-Coupled Receptors
Merlin, J., Park, J., Vandekolk, T. H., Fabb, S. A., Allinne, J., Summers, R. J., Langmead, C. J. & Riddy, D. M., 1 Apr 2022, In: Molecular Pharmacology. 101, 4, p. 246-256 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
4 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
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Georgina Sweet Fellowship
Lu, Y. (Recipient) & Langmead, Christopher (Recipient), 18 Jun 2021
Prize: Competitive Fellowships
Press/Media
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How to boost community and stakeholder support for the use of psychedelic medicines
Brea Kunstler, Melissa Hatty, Liam Smith, Breanna Wright & Christopher Langmead
14/02/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature