Isabelle McGrath
Postdoctoral Researcher
Isabelle McGrath is a post-doctoral researcher in psychiatric genetics in the Wray Group, based at the Big Data Institute. She is leveraging omics data to investigate biological mechanisms driving psychiatric conditions. She is primarily working on the ImmunoMind project - finding immune and metabolic causes of severe mental illness.
Prior to this she completed her PhD at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Her work investigated the relationship between endometriosis and its comorbidities using large genomic and health record datasets.
Recent publications
Immune dysfunction in psychiatric disorders: emerging genomic insights
Preprint
McGrath I. and Lynall M-E., (2026)
Interaction between genetic risk and comorbid conditions in endometriosis.
Journal article
McGrath IM. et al, (2025), HGG Adv, 6
Immune dysfunction in psychiatric disorders: emerging genomic insights
Preprint
McGrath I. and Lynall M-E., (2025)
Polygenic risk score phenome-wide association study reveals an association between endometriosis and testosterone.
Journal article
McGrath IM. et al, (2023), BMC Med, 21
Insights from Mendelian randomization and genetic correlation analyses into the relationship between endometriosis and its comorbidities.
Journal article
McGrath IM. et al, (2023), Hum Reprod Update, 29, 655 - 674