Improving Clinical Trials In Psychiatric Health Care

An Interview With 2022 Rising Leader Kiri Granger

Kiri Granger, Monument Therapeutics’ chief scientific officer and executive director, and one of In Vivo’s 2022 Rising Leaders, hopes to take the company to the next level by rejecting the conventional one-size-fits-all approach to psychiatric clinical trials.

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Central nervous system disorders represent a huge and growing unmet health need, yet drug development has stalled for some conditions and has not got off the ground at all for others. Chief scientific officer of Monument Therapeutics, Kiri Granger, told In Vivo, “When we think about why most CNS drugs fail in clinical trials, this is largely because diagnostic criteria do not reflect biological reality

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