Meet our team.
Xiaoyu (Betsy) Men, BSc
PhD Candidate
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology | University of Toronto
Betsy is a PhD candidate with the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Toronto. She joined the Pharmacogenetics Research Clinic at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in September 2020 under the supervision of Dr. Daniel Mueller. Her research interests include investigating the relationship between antidepressant pharmacokinetics and anti-depressant treatment responses using pharmacokinetic model, as well as predicting antidepressant responses in late-life depression using genomic approaches.
Betsy’s Projects
Antidepressant Plasma Levels
Antidepressant Response in Late-Life
Selected Publications
Men X, Taylor ZL, Marshe VS, …, Ramsey LB & Müller DJ. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 2024 Jan 29.
Genomic Investigation of Remission and Relapse of Psychotic Depression Treated with Sertraline plus Olanzapine: The STOP-PD II Study
Men X, Marshe V, Elsheikh SS, … , Flint AJ, & Müller DJ. Neuropsychobiology. 2023 Apr 04.
Exploratory genome-wide analyses of cortical inhibition, facilitation, and plasticity in late-life depression
Wathra RA, Men X, Elsheikh SSM, Marshe VS, … , Müller DJ & Blumberger DM. Translational Psychiatry. 2023 Jun 30.
Abnormal sensory perception masks behavioral performance of Grin1 knockdown mice
Lipina T, Men X, Blundell M, Salahpour A & Ramsey AJ. Genes, Brain, and Behavior. 2022 Jul 21.